She suggested he was destroying all Sarkozy had achieved in proving that a traditional, Catholic, rightwing area could vote for an ethnic-minority candidate such as her, from a poor housing estate in the provinces, the Muslim child of illiterate north African parents. She vowed to resist Fillon.

The vandal got off easy, with only a fine.

As she had hoped, the hiking boots looked more or less OK with this outfit, in a studenty sort of way.

The first introduction to a cavalletto comes at the end of a line of poles.