And the Gold Medal for Olympic Vanité Goes to the Socialist Mayor of Paris, as Macron Works the Phones From South of France

The Olympic pause from domestic woes and winds of war is about to end.

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The mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, shakes hands with the French prime minister, Gabriel Attal, at the Olympic Games Paris 2024 at Paris La Defense Arena on July 31, 2024, at Nanterre, France. Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images

In August, for the most part, France checks out for les vacances — unless you’re the mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, who has just mistaken a relatively uneventful Olympics for vindication of years of failed leftist policies. Or unless your name is Emmanuel Macron, in which case you might think it possible to solve the world’s ills from a sunbed somewhere south of Saint-Tropez.

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