France's Would-Be Joan of Arc

France's Would-Be Joan of Arc

These are bold deeds and fiery words from a woman young enough and salvific enough, in the eyes of her faithful, to have summoned emotions reserved for France’s top tier of heroines. MP François-Michel Lambert — of the Green party, admittedly — grumbled to the Guardian as early as April that Marion, treated like a mystical figure, “seems to have this disdain towards the rest of us as if she belongs to a superior race.” Perhaps you saw the following dig coming: “I see her in restaurants around Parliament, and she’s surrounded by a team of young advisors who treat her as if she’s a kind of Joan of Arc figure, the chosen one.”

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