French presidents, with the Republic's pomp and the powers granted to them, are often called a "republican monarch".
If a victory celebration is a presage of things to come, then France and Europe may have found in Emmanuel Macron a new kind of French monarch. One who is national as much as European, modern yet seeking tradition, but one who will have to start a revolution in order to stay in power.
The image of Macron walking alone on Sunday evening (7 May) in the majestic courty...
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