The Curious Case of the Seemingly AWOL French Prime Minister

After a humiliating European defeat Sunday comes a great hush from the Palais Élysée … oui, the calm before the coming storm.

Ludovic Marin, pool via AP, file
President Macron and the French prime minister when he was the education minister, Gabriel Attal, at Arras, October 13, 2023. Ludovic Marin, pool via AP, file

Where in the world is Gabriel Attal? Not only had President Macron not informed his young prime minister of his intention to dissolve l’Assemblée Nationale, the French parliament, ahead of his decision to do so on Sunday, but in the aftermath of the body blow to the European left, Mr. Attal is nowhere to be found. 

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