France: Napoleon's horse, police challenge and the 'Benzema complex'

“In the atmosphere of abandonment, atomization and savagery in France, it will be a miracle if Marine Le Pen is not chosen against Emmanuel Macron.. And if it is not, it is clear that he will have such representation that his ideas cannot be ignored,” warns this week in 'Le Figaro' Luc Ferry, former Minister of Education in the center-right government of Jean Paul Rafarin.

In the nine polls published so far this year on a second-round duel between Macron and Le Pen, the current pres