The longtime leader of the right-wing National Rally party in France, Marine Le Pen, has been replaced as president by Jordan Bardella. The party declared on Saturday at its conference in Paris that the 27-year-old MEP had received 85% of the vote. Bardella is the first president of the National Rally who is not a member of the Le Pen clan. Taking over so that Le Pen could focus on her ultimately... 

Suggestions that Notre Dame Cathedral be reimagined following Monday’s fire, complete with modern architecture and materials, have been met with outrage across France and around the world. “Let’s stop this madness: we need to have absolute respect for French heritage,” Jordan Bardella, another member of the right-wing party, said to LCI channel. Modern art makes me nostalgic for the arts...