 Thanks, James, and welcome to Paris. We're in the Le Ré Café in the Bastille area, famous, of course, for the prison whose gates were stormed during the revolution of July 1789. Well, 235 years later, the far-right National Rally had hoped that this July would be the month when they made a major democratic breakthrough by becoming the largest party in the French National Assembly after snap parliamentary elections called by Emmanuel Macron.