Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte were compared to Marie Antoinette on Friday after they were pictured dancing at a Celine Dion concert just hours before France was engulfed in riots against his failing government.
Clapping along in a private box on Friday evening, the couple seemed oblivious to the mood of a France enraged by soaring living costs, collapsing public finances and an administration paralysed in stalemate.
The President, 48, and Brigitte, 73, are unlikely to meet the fate of the guillotined queen but there was revolution in the air as 550,000 took to the streets on Friday.
Barricades and public buildings
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