Mr. Mélenchon’s advisers speak admiringly of Mr. Sanders. Although he works from 10 p.m. to 7 a.m. every night, he had come out to hear Mr. Mélenchon. “It’s his attitude of refusal,” Mr. Amando said, waiting for Mr. Mélenchon to appear. The revolutionaries of 1789 France created a kind of civic religion around their revolution; Mr. Mélenchon tries to do something similar. “No Frenchman can accept a global gendarme who decided all by himself the good and the bad,” Mr. Mélenchon said.

Source: New York Times April 16, 2017 23:03 UTC