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Emmanuel Macron is experiencing the calm before the storm

1 May 2020

5:12 PM

1 May 2020

5:12 PM

Today marks the third month of my confinement in my fifth floor apartment in Paris. As I wrote all those weeks ago, shortly after president Macron declared his ‘war’ on coronavirus, I had adopted a prisoner psychology to see me through what I suspected from the outset would be six weeks minimum of lockdown.

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