“Either you kill, or you die”: Paris, eternal battleground for the French right

If the French right is "the stupidest in the world," according to Guy Mollet, president of the Socialist Council under the Fourth Republic, the Parisian right is not far from being the stupidest in France. This is evidenced by the obstinacy with which, for nearly thirty years, its bridgeheads have massacred each other and thus rolled out the red carpet for a left that has since reigned over the capital, calmly watching the assegais fly. "It is not the left that won, it is the right that lost," lamented Laurent Dominati, deputy for the first arrondissements of the city, in 2001 at the end of the fratricidal butchery between Philippe Seguin , the official candidate of the RPR and Jean Tibéri, the outgoing mayor, which allowed the victory of the notorious Bertrand Delanoë , leader of the Parisian socialists. Since then, the mechanics have been well-oiled: the left can lose ground at the national level, as in 2001, or in 2014, but it knows it can count on the right to help it preserve the City of Lights. Ten years later,