Victor Mallet is an award-winning correspondent who has spent decades reporting from Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Asia for the Financial Times and Reuters. The author of River of Life, River of Death and The Trouble With Tigers, he has interviewed politicians including Marine Le Pen and Emmanuel Macron.

'A crisply written, meticulously researched narrative with the structure of a long-read news feature: factual, analytical but easy to digest, and free of polemic, as he promises in the preface... Aware of the French aphorism that Paris is not France nor France Paris, Mallet has also taken his notebook outside the capital, where RN support is strongest and growing [and] puts the party's fortunes in the context of nationalist and populist currents in Europe and the wider world.'

• Preface: Why We Failed to See It Coming Introduction: After Emmanuel Macron PART I GOODBYE TO THE OLD ORDER 1. Yellow-Vest Rebellion 2. The Trump Effect 3. In the Beginning Was the Father 4. Political Patricide PART II RISE OF THE RASSEMBLEMENT NATIONAL 5. The Road to Power 6. Who Is Jordan Bardella? 7. North and South 8. Far-Right Fiefdom PART III THE NEW FRANCE 9. The Big Issues: Immigration and the Economy 10. Environmental Battles and Culture Wars 11. France’s Fox News and the Battle for Public Opinion PART IV EXIT MARINE? 12. To Russia With Love 13. Embezzlement: “Unbelievable”—But True Conclusion: Far-Right Future Acknowledgements

Victor Mallet is an award-winning correspondent who has spent decades reporting from Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Asia for the Financial Times and Reuters. The author of River of Life, River of Death and The Trouble With Tigers, he has interviewed politicians including Marine Le Pen and Emmanuel Macron.

'A crisply written, meticulously researched narrative with the structure of a long-read news feature: factual, analytical but easy to digest, and free of polemic, as he promises in the preface... Aware of the French aphorism that Paris is not France nor France Paris, Mallet has also taken his notebook outside the capital, where RN support is strongest and growing [and] puts the party's fortunes in the context of nationalist and populist currents in Europe and the wider world.'

• Preface: Why We Failed to See It Coming Introduction: After Emmanuel Macron PART I GOODBYE TO THE OLD ORDER 1. Yellow-Vest Rebellion 2. The Trump Effect 3. In the Beginning Was the Father 4. Political Patricide PART II RISE OF THE RASSEMBLEMENT NATIONAL 5. The Road to Power 6. Who Is Jordan Bardella? 7. North and South 8. Far-Right Fiefdom PART III THE NEW FRANCE 9. The Big Issues: Immigration and the Economy 10. Environmental Battles and Culture Wars 11. France’s Fox News and the Battle for Public Opinion PART IV EXIT MARINE? 12. To Russia With Love 13. Embezzlement: “Unbelievable”—But True Conclusion: Far-Right Future Acknowledgements

Victor Mallet is an award-winning correspondent who has spent decades reporting from Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Asia for the Financial Times and Reuters. The author of River of Life, River of Death and The Trouble With Tigers, he has interviewed politicians including Marine Le Pen and Emmanuel Macron.

'A crisply written, meticulously researched narrative with the structure of a long-read news feature: factual, analytical but easy to digest, and free of polemic, as he promises in the preface... Aware of the French aphorism that Paris is not France nor France Paris, Mallet has also taken his notebook outside the capital, where RN support is strongest and growing [and] puts the party's fortunes in the context of nationalist and populist currents in Europe and the wider world.'

• Preface: Why We Failed to See It Coming Introduction: After Emmanuel Macron PART I GOODBYE TO THE OLD ORDER 1. Yellow-Vest Rebellion 2. The Trump Effect 3. In the Beginning Was the Father 4. Political Patricide PART II RISE OF THE RASSEMBLEMENT NATIONAL 5. The Road to Power 6. Who Is Jordan Bardella? 7. North and South 8. Far-Right Fiefdom PART III THE NEW FRANCE 9. The Big Issues: Immigration and the Economy 10. Environmental Battles and Culture Wars 11. France’s Fox News and the Battle for Public Opinion PART IV EXIT MARINE? 12. To Russia With Love 13. Embezzlement: “Unbelievable”—But True Conclusion: Far-Right Future Acknowledgements