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Natalie J. Doyle

Natalie J. Doyle

Natalie J. Doyle is senior lecturer in French studies at Monash University and deputy director of the Monash European and EU Centre. She is the author of Marcel Gauchet and the Loss of Common Purpose: Imaginary Islam and the crisis of European democracy (Lexington Books, 2017).

Natalie J. Doyle reviews 'Revolution' by Emmanuel Macron, translated by Jonathan Goldberg and Juliette Scott and 'The French Exception: Emmanuel Macron: The extraordinary rise and risk' by Adam Plowright

March 2018, no. 399 21 February 2018
After a succession of dramatic political events across the Western world in 2016, all eyes were on the French presidential election when it took place in the first half of 2017. Would the French resist the sirens of populism? Would the surprise campaign of the youngest candidate ever, Emmanuel Macron, offer a vision strong enough to lift the European continent out of the crisis into which it was p ... (read more)