France’s youngest leader since Napoleon takes the stage
by Vivienne Walt/Paris
May 13, 2017
2 minutes
LE KID: THAT WAS HOW THE NEWS magazine L’Express described France’s new President on its cover just hours after Emmanuel Macron’s victory on May 7. The headline captured just how thoroughly Macron’s lightning ascent from Rothschild banker to Economy Minister to leader of the world’s sixth biggest economy—all by the age of 39—has put the country’s gray-haired political grandees out to pasture.
In a stunning generational shift, millions of young
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