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BBefore his election, Emmanuel Macron had compared the role of the French president to Jupiter, the noble Roman god of the gods.
France, he theorized, expects a touch of majesty from the head of state and never really lost the monarchy, seeking the king as a lost member .
He also likes to think he can cut his head at will.
The paradox, he said, meant that the French were a nation of "regicide monarchists".
For the two Gallic hemispheres to be happy "at the same time" – his favorite phrase – Macron embarked on participatory democracy through door-to-door campaigns, hundreds of local badociations and a range of unknown political civil society, many of whom became deputies.
Eighteen months later, …
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