France's first gay wedding will be celebrated Wednesday in the Mediterranean city of Montpellier, and chances are that the ceremony will be held under police surveillance as unrest persists more than a week after the passing of the country’s same-sex marriage law. On Sunday, tens of thousands of people from all over France gathered in Paris for a last, desperate attempt to have the legislation repealed. Some extreme right-wing groups, whose most visible militants looked like neo-Nazi thugs, held a separate march that ended in violent attacks against journalists and police, but it was a sideshow.
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