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April 12, 2012

Drawn to Extremes in France

Robert Zaretsky, Los Angeles Times

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Jean-Luc Melenchon on the left and Marine Le Pen on the right make for a fascinating, and worrisome, presidential election.

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TAGGED: France, Marine Le Pen, Jean-Luc Melenchon

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