Having lost the French presidential race three times, there were signs this summer that Marine Le Pen would quit. Then parliamentary elections in June threw her far-right National Rally (NR) party a lifeline, going from just eight members of parliament to 89, making it a major opposition force to President Emmanuel Macron’s minority government. Since this day last week, Le Pen has at least nominally stood aside from party leadership to concentrate on one last go at winning the French presidency in 2027. But the reality is she is still the real power in the NR, the successor party to...