Safy: Macrom has an incentive to present himself as sort of fathers of the natio, and try and build this sort of legacy for themselves. Ben: He's incredibly young to be president; most of these guys look incredibly old. safy: I wouldn't be surprised if he disappeared off am and and wrote the novel he's always wanted to do. Ei: His whole life has been a novel that he's writing for himself, and he's the leading character in it.
For the second part of our analysis of one of the most tense elections in Europe of recent years, we hear from Sophie Pedder, Paris bureau chief at The Economist and author of Revolution Française: Emmanuel Macron and the Quest to Reinvent a Nation. Sophie is joined by foreign-policy writer and Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council, Ben Judah, for a discussion about where France is headed next on both the World stage and closer to home. Hosting the discussion is Rosamund Urwin, Media Editor for the Sunday Times.
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