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He ran into his daughters opponent in the street and took a punch at her. He ran over to her. People were trying to hold him back. Look. Look at this picture. He pushed his way through, he grabbed hold of her and hit her. This was the woman who was running against his daughter for parliament. I had known this story, i dont know, sort of peripherally. I had definitely seen these sort of famous still images of that moment. Those were in my head. But today we actually went into the archives and we found old french news footage of that incident. And turns out there arent just those images, theres ...

In 2002, in france's first election after 9/11 in 2002, france scared itself to death because jean marie le pen defeated one of the candidates from the mainstream political parties and made it into the presidential runoff himself. and that was seen as the equivalent of like david duke becoming one of the two major candidates in a general election for our country. it absolutely terrified france and unified people against him like you couldn't believe. he got absolutely destroyed in the general election. he was one of the last two candidates, but he lost hugely. he ran against jacque shirak but ...