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PARIS \u2014 French President Emmanuel Macron took first place, ahead of far-right leader Marine Le Pen, in the first round of France\u2019s presidential election on Sunday, but he is on course for a far closer second-round clash than five years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While polling suggests Macron should retain the presidency in two weeks, first round results show the incumbent can\u2019t rest on his laurels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le Pen will be able to count on voters from far-right TV-pundit-turned-politician Eric Zemmour, who called on his supporters to back her on April 24. Meanwhile, leftist firebrand Jean-Luc M\u00e9lenchon fared better than expected and brings a heavy dose of uncertainty to the mix as his voters are a diverse bunch. Many are likely to abstain in the second round, while others will divide up between the French president and Le Pen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cPolitics is war without bloodshed
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France\u2019s repeat of the 2017 runoff confirms Macron\u2019s and Le Pen\u2019s own political analysis: That the divide between the left and the right is no longer relevant in France and has been replaced by an opposition between a mainstream bloc that is pro-European and open to the outside world on one side, and nationalists on the other. Both candidates scored higher than five years ago, leaving the traditional right and left in an even more shambolic state than before. Macron went from 24 percent in 2017 in the first round to 27.6 percent Sunday and Le Pen went from 21.3 percent to 23.4 percent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The gap between them is higher than last time around, showing that Macron has managed to drum up the most votes despite controversies in the campaign\u2019s last mile, including over the state\u2019s overuse of consulting firms. But the far-right bloc \u2014 Marine Le Pen, Eric Zemmour and nationalist Nicolas Dupont-Aignan combined \u2014 garnered than 30 percent of the total vote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I describe the \u201cfun\u201d parts of Only Yesterday because they\u2019re wonderful, but also to make a point about the origin story we\u2019ve learned about the mood of the \u201920s. Looking back at Allen\u2019s work from the vantage point of 1986, historian David M. Kennedy argued that the biggest failing of the book was its lack of historical depth: \u201cRarely did Allen forge an explanatory chain whose links ran back more deeply into the past than 1917.\u201d And indeed, Allen seemed to blame World War I for every ash-covered carpet and scarred dining table.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Allen is also really good at describing parties\u2014or, at least, the ones the middle class and upper class attended. The historian wrote about how women taking up smoking had \u201cstrewed the dinner table with their ashes, snatched a puff between the acts, invaded the masculine sanctity of the club car, and forced department stores to place ornamental ash-trays between the chairs in their women\u2019s shoe departments.\u201d In what I think may be the best passage in the book, Allen described the way 1920s partygoers stepped all over every previous genteel convention:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Anyway, let\u2019s get to that fun. A very joyful book to read about the decade is Frederick Lewis Allen\u2019s Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920s, which Allen\u2014a blueblood journalist and editor at Harper\u2019s\u2014published in 1931. The book chronicles all of the movement and motion that makes the decade sexy, and doesn\u2019t seem to miss a fad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The property, complete with a 30-seat screening room, a 100-seat amphitheater and a swimming pond with sandy beach and outdoor shower, was asking about $40 million, but J. Lo managed to make it hers for $28 million. As the Bronx native acquires a new home in California, she is trying to sell a gated compound.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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