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Former French President Francois Hollande looks up as he poses with newly elected parliament members of the Socialist party, at the National Assembly, Tuesday, July 9, 2024 in Paris. French voters have given a broad leftist coalition the most parliamentary seats in a pivotal legislative election that has kept the far right from power but has put France in the unprecedented position of having no dominant political bloc in parliament. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

France’s leftist coalition demands the right to form a government after fractured parliament vote

By Sylvie Corbet and Nicolas Garriga - Associated Press

French President Emmanuel Macron visits the Aluminium Dunkerque factory in Dunkirk, northern France, Friday, May 12, 2023. Macron announced two major investments in the Dunkirk region, both in the battery sector: one worth 5.2 billion euros by Taiwan's group Prologium, the other one via a joint venture of China's XTC with French giant Orano worth 1.5 billion euros. (Pascal Rossignol/Pool Photo via AP)

Macron vows to build back factories, boost France’s economy shaken by pension protests

By Sylvie Corbet - Associated Press

French president visits Kyiv suburb, decries ‘massacre’

By David Keyton, John Leicester and Sylvie Corbet - Associated Press

FILE - In this Oct.17, 1967 file photo, Algerians come out of Paris subway station with their hands on their heads after being arrested in Paris for failure to obey curfew imposed on Algerians. A tribute march is organized in Paris Sunday Oct.17, 2021 for the 60th anniversary of the bloody police crackdown on a protest by Algerians in the French capital, during the final year of their country's independence war with the colonial power. About 12,000 Algerians were arrested and &quot;several dozens&quot; were killed, &quot;their bodies thrown into the Seine River.&quot; Historians say at least 120 protesters have been killed, some shot and some drowned in the Seine River. (AP Photo, File)

France commemorates the 1961 massacre of Algerians in Paris

By Arno Pedram and Sylvie Corbet - Associated Press

French President Emmanuel Macron attends a video conference of a EU summit at the Elysee Palace in Paris, Thursday, March 25, 2021. The looming third wave of coronavirus infections and Europe's struggle to mount a vaccination drive will dominate Thursday's EU video summit. (AP Photo/Michel Euler, Pool)

France’s Macron: No regrets for rejecting new virus lockdown

By ANGELA CHARLTON - Associated Press

Supporters of Sunni Tehreek, a religious group, burn a representation of a French flag with a defaced image of French President Emmanuel Macron during a protest against the French president and republishing of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad they deem blasphemous, in Lahore, Pakistan, Sunday, Nov. 1, 2020. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)

Anti-France protests continue, as Macron seeks understanding

By MUHAMMAD FAROOQ - Associated Press

France's Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin attends the Bastille Day military parade, Tuesday, July 14, 2020 in Paris. France are honoring nurses, ambulance drivers, supermarket cashiers and others on its biggest national holiday Tuesday. Bastille Day's usual grandiose military parade in Paris is being redesigned this year to celebrate heroes of the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena, Pool)

France’s Macron defends security chief accused of rape

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FILE - In this Jan.10, 2020 file photo, French President Emmanuel Macron attends the Citizens' Convention for Climate held at the French 'Conseil economique, social et environnemental' in Paris. French President Emmanuel Macron tried Tuesday Jan. 14, 2020 to calm nationwide tensions and salvage support for his overhaul of the country's retirement system, as France faced day 41 of crippling strikes. (Yoan Valat, Pool via AP, File)

France’s Macron makes big push for more foreign investment

By SYLVIE CORBET - Associated Press

Yellow Vest demonstrators gather in Paris, during another protest Saturday April 27, 2019. Yellow vest protesters remain a force in French politics despite ups and downs in the five months after their movement started. (AP Photo/Rafael Yaghobzadeh)

French protests mark 24th week despite Macron’s pledges

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Demonstrators gather around a burning barricade during clashes with riots police, in Paris, France, Saturday, Dec. 8, 2018. Crowds of protesters angry at President Emmanuel Macron and France's high taxes tried to converge on the presidential palace Saturday, some scuffling with police firing tear gas, amid exceptional security measures aimed at preventing a repeat of last week's rioting. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

Macron to break silence, address French nation amid protests

By ELAINE GANLEY - Associated Press

French Riots Over Gas Tax Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Emmanuel Macron’s ‘green’ taxes have the French seeing red

By Daniel Kochis

U.S President Donald Trump, second left, watches French President Emmanuel Macron putting his hand on German Chancellor Angela Merkel's knee during ceremonies at the Arc de Triomphe Sunday, Nov. 11, 2018 in Paris. Over 60 heads of state and government were taking part in a solemn ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, the mute and powerful symbol of sacrifice to the millions who died from 1914-18. (AP Photo/Francois Mori, Pool)

Trump rips Macron over trade, wine, his low approval ratings

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE - Associated Press

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, center, attends the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's office in Jerusalem Sunday, June 3, 2018 (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner, Pool)

Netanyahu heads to Europe with Iran on his mind

By CARON CREIGHTON - Associated Press

Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and French President Emmanuel Macron pose for a photo at the Palace of Versailles, near Paris, France, Monday, May 29, 2017. Monday's meeting comes in the wake of the Group of Seven's summit over the weekend where relations with Russia were part of the agenda, making Macron the first Western leader to speak to Putin after the talks. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, pool)

Vladimir Putin visits France for talks; Emmanuel Macron does not give an inch

By Vladimir Isachenkov, Sylvie Corbet and John Leicester - Associated Press

French President Emmanuel Macron, fourth left, and Prime Minister Edouard Philippe, third left, pose for a family photo after the first cabinet meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris, Thursday, May 18, 2017. (Philippe Wojazer, Pool via AP)

French President Macron talks to Putin, faces media uproar

By SYLVIE CORBET - Associated Press

Lyon mayor Gerard Collomb waves as he arrives at the Elysee Palace Sunday, May 14, 2017 in Paris. Collomb has been named as French Interior Minister Wednesday, May 17, 2017. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena, File)

French president’s Cabinet mixes old and new, left and right

By SYLVIE CORBET - Associated Press

Supporters of French independent centrist presidential candidate, Emmanuel Macron react outside the Louvre museum in Paris, France, Sunday, May 7, 2017. Polling agencies have projected that centrist Emmanuel Macron will be France's next president, putting a 39-year-old political novice at the helm of one of the world's biggest economies and slowing a global populist wave. The agencies projected that Macron defeated far-right leader Marine Le Pen 65 percent to 35 percent on Sunday. (AP Photo/Laurent Cipriani)

Joy, relief and rousing Louvre party for France’s Macron

By THOMAS ADAMSON and ELAINE GANLEY - Associated Press

Parisians attended a concert Thursday featuring various artists opposing Marine Le Pen, who faces off in the French presidential runoff Sunday against Emmanuel Macron. (Associated Press)

France minorities on edge over election for president

By Elena Berton - Special to The Washington Times