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France’s World Cup Victory Is a Win for Emmanuel Macron

At stake was not only a clash of soccer teams, but also a clash of worldviews.
Source: Darren Staples / Reuters

—When the victorious World Cup–winning French national team arrived on the Champs-Élysées on Monday evening, welcomed home by massive crowds under massive security, it capped weeks during which France didn’t only cheer on its team, but also used the competition as a moment for soul-searching. The introspection was about race, about multiculturalism, about Paris’s , and about how much has and hasn’t changed in France since it

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