'Hyper president' Macron picks regal setting for rare speech
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Macron will use the speech, which has been billed as a novel, US-style state of the nation address, to set out his vision for a French "renaissance".
But the message risks being overshadowed by the unease over the growing concentration of power in the presidency, with his speech to a rare sitting of the National Assembly and Senate seen as proof of his "monarchical" drift.
