France is a country of drama – it is currently not clear whether Jean Racine, Molière, Georges Feydeau or Eugène Ionesco will be performed. When Emmanuel Macron decided to dissolve the National Assembly, the finding of a “coup de poker” (bluff) still outweighed the “coup de théâtre” (sudden turn). Since then, the dominant impression has been that the presidential act abruptly raised the curtain on a tragicomic revue.
