Once Upon A Time In France: NUPES Alliance, Football Fiasco, And Burkini Breakdown

Is France headed toward an electoral surprise?

My mom (seated) and aunt at the American Cemetary in Normandy.

By now you have noticed that this newsletter had been absent from your inboxes for several weeks. I’ve been sidelined by a mix of travel, family matters, and COVID. On the latter, it appears being vaccinated 4 times did not, in fact, make me invincible.

I suspect that my turn on the COVID car…