Sociologist Jérôme Fourquet: 'The silent majority is pivotal'

Jérôme Fourquet, the French director of opinion at Ifop Institute, an international polling and market research firm, believes that French society is more divided than ever.

He believes that rather than "two Frances" there are three, and that those groups are separating, geographically and ideologically.

The far right in France is on the rise and this, he says, depends in part on social and economic factors but also on the political narrative —...