Marine Le Pen: Why I’m with her
Like many post-imperial western European states, France has not recovered easily from the scars of its lost empire.
The brutality of late-colonial French suppression of freedom fighters in French Indo-China (later Vietnam) and Algeria is among the darkest moments in French history and indeed all of European colonial history.
This is something that many in France continue to grapple with. The post-colonial collective conscience of France is still conflicted, angry and at times even desperate.
