Emmanuel Macron ignites the crowd at his Paris victory rally

PARIS — When a triumphant Emmanuel Macron, France’s new president-elect, took to the stage Sunday, he entered to the sound of music — but not to France’s national anthem, “La Marseillaise.” Instead, Macron claimed his victory to the strains of Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy,” the official anthem of the European Union. At the gathering of […]

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