Emmanuel Macron had sensed it, in front of the Louvre pyramid. “It won't be easy every day, I know it. The task will be hard, " conceded the youngest candidate elected president of the Republic, on May 7, 2017. But that evening, the euphoria of triumph, carried by a recent party, won everything: " What we did, for so many months, has neither precedent nor equivalent ” . "Neither precedent, nor equivalent" ... Three years later, this "never seen" ended up becoming the law of his quinquennium. Transforming his unprecedented victory into repeated trials, from "yellow vests" to the global epidemic of coronavirus.
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Cursed, Emmanuel Macron? The eighth head of state in office since 1958 does not have a monopoly on crisis situations. Wars, financial rout, attacks ... "All the presidents have faced major trials" , notes Didier Maus, president of the Historical Society of the Fifth Republic.
Three-year curse for most presidents
Not all were struck during their first three years, however.
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