FRENCH LETTER: The violence of 17 October has a long backstory (but who cares about history?)
Trigger warning: don’t read this piece if you want to cling to your romantic idea of France as the country of love and lavender, art and elegance, croissants and camembert.
This piece is republished from Marita Van der Vyver’s Substack.
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