After a divisive election, this summer’s Games will fire the starting gun on a vast project to transform the French capital
I’m now a French citizen, after two decades living in Paris, so I could vote in the recent parliamentary elections. So could my Paris-born daughter, recently turned 18. The morning of the first round, we walked together down our boulevard, past banners heralding the coming Olympic Games. At her old primary school, our local ballot station, we queued among the mostly white, well-off people who inhabit the city centre.
It passes through Aulnay-sous-Bois, hometown of Aya Nakamura, stage name of the French-Malian singer who might sing at the Olympic opening ceremony — a possibility that has prompted racist attacks against her on social media. Two stops later comes Drancy, where Jordan Bardella, 28-year-old president of the RN, grew up with his single mother. Bardella portrays his upbringing as rough, but in fact his businessman father paid for private schools.
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