President of the Republic has tried several times to correct the situation. At the beginning of 2017, in Lyon, Emmanuel Macron had hammered it: "There is not a French culture, there is a culture in France and it is diverse" These outings, concomitant with the one on colonization in Algeria - qualified as a "crime against humanity" - contributed to distance the right-wing electorate from the future president.
Little phrases that will mark him out as a multiculturalist are: "I have never seen French art"