I have listened to an interview with Le Pen and found her to be remarkably down to earth and practical. Nothing she said came across to me as particularly right wing, much less “extreme right wing”.
If she had been standing in the 1930s she would have been considered a wet centrist.
The label “far right” appears now to be applied to anyone who is remotely patriotic, or against mass migration, or who believes that people with XY chromosomes are men.
Crying wolf in this way means that we will be unable to distinguish between real far right lunatics and those who simply disagree with the current woke madness.

This is an insightful piece. I always enjoy reading Anne-Elisabeth Moutet because she combines cold, rational analysis with a powerful sense of intuition.

It’s difficult to portray Le Pen as ‘Far Right’ when Zemmour is around. This has made her ‘respectable’. She has gained more votes in the centre-left to centre-right than she has lost on the far right.

God Bless Marine Le Pen. She is with the people. The Globalists are humanities enemies. They are our modern day Hitlers, Maos, Stalins. Gates, Schwab, Fauci, Biden, Johnson, Macron. These evil satanists must be defeated or all of humanity may be lost

As an American, I find this a very helpful piece.
I wonder if “formal feminist statements” can be contrasted with being “the one most perceived by public opinion surveys as having womanly, even motherly traits.” I guess that depends on how one defines feminism, which has now become as broad a term as humanism, secularism, or even liberalism, in that it’s typically used these days by different people to describe positions that are polar opposites.
My understanding of the French–especially traditionally French men–is that they’re perfectly happy to support an attractive, middle-aged, traditionally feminine woman, particularly if she’s an avowed nationalist. That means she’s not questioning features of French culture that tend to really piss off Anglo-American feminists (like the normalization–even expectation– of straight male marital infidelity because men are considered powerless over sexual desire, or double standards for female behavior like drinking, that sort of thing.) So avowed French nationalism in a sense is inherently perceived as non, if not anti-feminist.
The traditional benefit of French–even European–culture over American is that they don’t have outrageous, youth-obsessed, plastic surgeried, pornified standards for female “beauty,” but instead believe that une belle femme d’une age certaine is still beautiful, if she takes care of herself. It seems to me that French women don’t become as invisible as they age as women do in America; part of that is their attitude and self-care, and part of it is again, this assumption/expectation that straight men are always attracted to well-kempt women of most ages. So older attractive French women still carry themselves (and dress) as if they’re still relevant–and men treat them that way. European American men I know who’ve spent time in France are always commenting on the many attractive older women they see just walking down the rue. Le Pen comes across as another Deneuve, or Helen Mirren–a pretty middle-aged nurturing Mom who’s pleasant to gaze at but not distractingly sexual.
Of course, it’s outrageous that women’s appearance figures this much into political leadership in the first place, but having said that, one has to deal with the reality on the ground.

A country which could fall for Macron must either be simple minded or indifferent. Times have changed and it would appear Zemmour peaked too early. The French, as a race, are unpredictable and Paris is very much like our London Islington set with mental boundaries limited to inside the North Circular. Maybe the Périphique will reveal a Red Wall. She has my vote but I still have no idea if she means us well. I’m pretty sure the other contenders do not.

I wonder if Macrons team is intentionally trying to encourage the voters to select her – rather than any of the others – as his opponent for the run off.