Marion Maréchal kept out of front-line politics after stepping down as a far-right member of parliament in June 2017. For two years she has been quietly concentrating on launching an educational institute to train “a new generation of political men and women” who will challenge today’s “conformism, groupthink and political correctness”. Now she has called for a “grand coalition” of the parties of the right, with a very different centre of gravity to the party of either Macron or Le Pen.