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1066 and All That? 2024 Could Be the Year France and Britain Start To Converge

Stranger things have happened, let us just say. Just ask William the Conqueror — and Marine Le Pen.

AP/Michel Euler
The French right-wing leader, Marine Le Pen, listens as French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin delivers a speech at the French National Assembly at Paris. AP/Michel Euler
ANTHONY GRANT
ANTHONY GRANT

It has not happened for nearly a thousand years, but if it does it will be the rendezvous of the century: London and Paris wearing the same crown. 

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ANTHONY GRANT
ANTHONY GRANT

Mr. Grant, a California native who has written for many major newspapers including France-Soir and the New York Times and worked in television at Paris (France24) and Tel Aviv (i24news), is now based in Athens as a staff reporter and editor of The New York Sun.

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