Thursday was market day in Chelles, a busy suburb on the eastern outskirts of Paris. Mid-morning, with summer heat already rising, French shoppers filed past volunteers handing them electoral literature. “We feel so lost,” said one. “We don’t know who to vote for anymore,” added another.  “We no longer know what to think,” 74-year-old Nicole told The Currency, emerging from the fresh produce section of the market and adding to the general feeling of confusion. “We need change, but not too radical a change either.” She said she previously followed the party of Éric Zemmour, a firebrand far-right polemicist who…

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