Ahead of the French Election, Reflections On My Long, Parisian Path to Citizenship

As much as I enjoy engaging in armchair punditry, Paris Unlocked isn’t meant to be a political commentary site–and plenty of political journalists out there are offering in-depth analysis of the gaggle of candidates running this year in the French election over the next two weeks.

What is the point of this post, then? I myself am a relatively new French …