 So it claims reinvented itself as a mainstream right-wing party, albeit a party still preoccupied with issues of identity and with borders. Who belongs in France? Who counts as a French man or woman? How should France respond to large-scale immigration? A few days ago, I was in a small, ludicrously pretty medieval town near the southern coast of Brittany. It's a place that has usually leaned slightly to the left in political terms.