Emmanuel Macron cut a sombre figure in the vast, sepulchral Panthéon during a ceremony to inter a former French justice minister this week.
It was a stark reminder of the president’s increased isolation as former allies turn against him and his popularity plummets in the midst of a political turmoil for which he is largely being blamed.
The late minister Robert Badinter was “criticised, attacked, mocked, vilified, insulted, abused, even hated” for his life’s work to abolish the death penalty and legalise homosexuality, Macron said in his speech on Thursday, perhaps seeing some parallels with his own situation.
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