Behind impressive Olympic preparations, France is being torn apart by deepening polarisation and political crisis
As he established France's Fifth Republic, Charles de Gaulle confided to a friend: "I am trying to give France the appearance of a solid, firm, confident and expanding country, while it is a worn-out nation... The whole thing is a perpetual illusion."
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