I can’t remember a time in recent history when France has appeared so isolated on an international level because of its own political choices. The criticism that has been levelled at France ever since the burkini scandal broke – especially since the pictures emerged of armed policemen forcing a Muslim woman sitting on a beach to partly undress – has brought to mind other, different, but no less spectacular instances of what some have described as “French-bashing”.
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