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French President Emmanuel Macron greets veterans at the the Unknown Soldier's tomb under the Arc de Triomphe after his formal inauguration ceremony as French President Sunday, May 14, 2017 in Paris. Macron was inaugurated as France's new president at the Elysee Palace in Paris, and immediately launched into his mission to shake up French politics, world economics and the European Union. (Alain Jocard, Pool via AP)

The Latest: France’s new president visits military hospital

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A Femen activist is led away by French police in Henin-beaumont, northern France, Sunday, May 7, 2017. Voters across France are choosing a new president in an unusually tense and important election that could decide Europe's future, making a stark choice between pro-business progressive candidate Emmanuel Macron and far-right populist Marine Le Pen. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)

The Latest: Macron win cheered by Paris Olympic bid group

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The Arc de Triomphe is pictured on the Champs Elysees boulevard in Paris, early Friday, April 21, 2017. (AP Photo/Michel Euler) ** FILE **

The Latest: Far-left candidate goes on with final event

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FILE - In this Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2016 file photo, a stone tablet with cuneiform writing in the foreground as UNESCO's Iraq representative Louise Haxthausen documents the damage wreaked by the Islamic State group at the ancient site of Nimrud, Iraq. France is trying to raise tens of millions of dollars from international donors who gathered Monday March 20, 2017, to protect cultural heritage sites threatened by war and the kind of destruction carried out by Islamic State militants. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo, File)

$75 million pledged to protect heritage sites in war zones

By THOMAS ADAMSON - Associated Press

France's President Francois Hollande, left, welcomes Armenia's President Serge Sarkissian at the Elysee Palace, Wednesday, March 8, 2017. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

France seeks to revive Armenia-Azerbaijan peace push

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French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron has created a center-left party in a bid to shake up what he views as a hyperideological political culture. (Associated Press)

Emmanuel Macron finds path in race for French president

By Maya Vidon — Special to The Washington Times

French Prime Minister Manuel Valls blows a kiss to the audience after announcing his candidacy for the Socialist primary next month, in Evry, outside Paris, Monday Dec. 5, 2016. Valls hopes to unite the Socialists under his banner and give the left a chance to stay at the Elysee, in the most ambitious challenge of his political life after president Francois Hollande decided not to run for re-election next year. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

Manuel Valls, French prime minister, steps down to focus on presidential election

By Sylvie Corbet - Associated Press

FILE- In this Sunday, Oct. 2016 file photo, French President Francois Hollande stands during a meeting with International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach at the Elysee Palace in Paris. Normally a man of consensus and caution, President Francois Hollande’s frank comments in a new book written by two journalists is causing shockwaves in France. “A President Shouldn’t Say That ...” has exposed the inner workings of Hollande’s troubled presidency and his views on Islamic veils, Barack Obama and his private life. (AP Photo/Kamil Zihnioglu, Pool, File)

French leader’s frank comments in new book cause shockwaves

By SYLVIE CORBET - Associated Press

French leader tries to calm angry judges after tell-all book

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Opinion polls show that National Front party leader Marine Le Pen would win 30 percent of the national vote if France's elections were held today. (Associated Press)

Marine Le Pen, National Front riding anti-establishment wave ahead of France elections

By Elena Berton - Special to The Washington Times

French President Francois Hollande, left, poses with International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach, after Bach received an Olympic flag from the 1924 Olympics games during a meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris, Sunday, Oct. 2, 2016. Paris, which last hosted the Olympics in 1924, is competing against Budapest, Rome and Los Angeles for the games. (AP Photo/Kamil Zihnioglu, Pool)

IOC president ‘impressed’ by Paris 2024 bid

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN - Associated Press

Police surrounds activists standing on the roofs of dwellings in an attempt to prevent them from being dismantled in a makeshift migrants camp near Calais, France, Tuesday March 1, 2016. The slow tear-down of the encampment in Calais continued Tuesday, angering migrants who live there in squalid conditions in hopes of reaching a better life in Britain. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

French president vows to shut down Calais camp this year

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French President Francois Hollande gestures as he addresses French ambassadors, Tuesday Aug. 30, 2016 in Paris. (AP Photo/Francois Mori, Pool)

France criticizes Turkish military intervention in Syria

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French President Francois Hollande speaks with French Archbishop of Paris Cardinal Andre Vingt-trois, right, before a mass to pay tribute to French priest Father Jacques Hamel at the Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris, France, Wednesday, July 27, 2016. Father Jacques Hamel was killed on Tuesday in an attack on a church at Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray near Rouen, Normandy, that was carried out by assailants linked to Islamic State. (Benoit Tessier/Pool Photo via AP)

Islamist fundamentalism at war with the West

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France wastes no time in pushing bid to host 2024 Games

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