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In France, who do you hate least?

In Michel Houellebecq's bleak satirical novel "Submission", the French political order is turned on its head after the soul-crushing re-election in 2017 of Francois Hollande, the most unpopular president the country has ever seen.

"A strange, oppressive mood settled over France, a kind of suffocating despair, all-encompassing, but shot through with glints of insurrection," writes Houellebecq in his 2015 bestseller.

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