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France must define its values so it can defend them

Policemen guard the Basilica of Notre-Dame de Nice after the knife attack on 29 October. (Photo by ERIC GAILLARD/AFP via Getty Images)
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Professor John Keiger is the former research director of the Department of Politics and International Studies at Cambridge.

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