
How Macron Became the Anti-de Gaulle
The French president desired to be Jupiter; instead, he became Icarus.

The French president desired to be Jupiter; instead, he became Icarus.

A symptom of the French penchant to riot or part of a broader collapse of the Fifth Republic? The European Conservative speaks to a participant of recent anti-Macron pension demonstrations to examine the movement’s causes, character, and future.

The wound of Algeria was quickly closed without being disinfected, and has continued to rot slowly ever since. It has weakened the French body politic, made sicker by Macron’s intervention.