Inside France: Learning about Lucie and Paris' cliche-busting Olympics
Briefly

Her name emerged as the eventually agreed-upon candidate for the leftist alliance - she is an economist currently working for Paris city hall.
When Jean Castex was appointed PM in 2020 he was so unknown that news outlets struggled to find a picture of him, some were reduced to using a photo of an empty chair with his name badge in front of it.
"Macron said that nothing could begin while the Paris Olympics were in progress. You could not expect the French people, or French politicians, to pay any attention to politics while they were distracted by synchronised swimming and Greco-Roman wrestling."
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