'Marine Le Pen has presented a more acceptable face for the Front National'.

(From Guardian Unlimited)

A photographer called France Keyser from Marseille pointed me in the direction of Carpentras. She has spent the past two years working on a photographic record of the Front National in the south of France, attending meetings, going on rallies, speaking to activists. You can see a selection of her pictures here .

Unfortunately (if unsurprisingly), on May Day the place was practically deserted. It's a small, pretty and very old town not far from Avignon with around 30,000 inhabitants, and in one of the traditional Front National heartlands it distinguished itself during the first round of the presidential elections on 22 April by delivering …