Jun 20
6 min read
French Voters Abandon Macron
In a stunning rout, French President Emmanuel Macron lost his absolute majority Sunday to the resurgent right and ascendent left.
In French, they call it, “étonnement,”- it means, “a sudden wrenching self-beholding.”
There are other words for it: Enlightenment, epiphany, satori. Lots of world languages have felt the need to vocalize the concept. Hence, there are many words dedicated to…
