“For such is the French nation, that it is defined neither by religion, nor by skin colour, nor by anything other than the political will it forms around Robespierre’s maxim: liberty, equality, fraternity. And for the rest, everyone has their own way, their own way. The French nation was built around its State. It was built around a principle: everyone adopts it by receiving it according to the law of the soil: you are born here, you are French.”

– Jean Luc Melenchon, the leader of La France Insoumise, which is the country’s communist party. You’d think that invoking Robespierre to take a dump on French ethnicity as the basis of French society would be a mistake; he obviously doesn’t think so.