2016-08-04 18:00

Terror From Paris to the Provinces Reshapes French Elections

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Beauvais, population 55,000, is typical of provincial France. It has a Gothic cathedral, long-closed textile plants and multicultural housing projects from the 1960s ringing a historic center.

Since last month’s terror attacks in Nice and rural Normandy, it’s been convulsed by anxiety and suspicion.

“Fear is contagious,” Alain Giblin, a 68-year-old former teacher, said last week after a mass in the town where he’s lived his entire life. “I don’t want to live thinking everyone I see could be an enemy. But that’s the way we seem to be heading.”

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