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The scenes of social unrest and violence at the weekend are an ominous portent, ahead of elections which may deliver a far-right presidencyIn Emmanuel Macron’s book Revolution, published ahead of the 2017 presidential election that he went on to win, he promised to restore hope to a country that was losing faith in its future. As Mr Macron’s lame-duck second term enters its last phase against a quasi-insurrectionary backdrop of torched public buildings and looted shops, the failure of that polit

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