Sophie Pedder has been Paris Bureau Chief for The Economist since 2003, and regularly writes on French political and economic affairs. She was the recipient of the David Watt journalism prize in 2006, and is the author of Revolution Française: Emmanuel Macron and the Quest to Reinvent a Nation (Bloomsbury, 2018).
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