For France’s Resurgent Far Left, Student Protests Are an Opening and a Threat

New York Times Thursday 08 October 2026, 04:00 UTC By Mark Landler 1 min read

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Jean-Luc Mélenchon at a demonstration in Paris on Tuesday. The protests have provided him with both opportunity and peril.

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