Macron: France's youngest leader since Napoleon
His election represents a long-awaited generational change in French politics where the same faces have dominated for years
08 May 2017 - 08:09
It has taken only three years for Emmanuel Macron to rise from being an unknown government adviser to be elected France's youngest head of state since Napoleon. Elected on Sunday several months before his 40th birthday, the centrist has turned a stale establishment upside down while eschewing the wave of economic and political nationalism that helped Britain to vote for "Brexit" and Donald Trump to be elected U.S. president.
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