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How France’s far right is using a weekend of riots and chaos to seize power

Photo: Laurent Cipriani

In the streets, rioters looted shops, torched cars and set fire to buildings. In the Élysée Palace, outgoing French President Emmanuel Macron confronted the damage to both his nation’s cities and his centrist political project, now in disarray just as it should have been reaching its culmination.

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