The people of France are in an extraordinary funk about their future - heres why | Paul Taylor

The race to succeed Emmanuel Macron is looming, but rarely has the mood been so gloomy or the lure of extremist solutions so alarmingFrance, as the French travel writer Sylvain Tesson once noted, is a paradise inhabited by people who think they live in hell. As the campaign for next years presidential election hits its stride with ever more wannabes declaring their candidacies, the country is in a particularly sullen mood.If the vote were held now, the anti-immigration populist Marine Le Pen wou...