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I think making some kind of nice statement is pretty much the norm -- just about every President has left a nice letter for their successor, even after very contentious elections.

France is weirdly stingy about consulates. Sweden, a far smaller country with a far smaller demographic representation in the United States, has thirty-one consulates in America to France's nine. BTW, said Sweden has two consulates in Texas (Dallas and Houston), as well as one in Seattle.

Bizarrely enough, California contains both of the French Consulates for the entire West Coast; one is in Los Angeles, and the other is in San Francisco. However, these are still not individual state consulates; the San Francisco consulate's zone of responsibility stretches from northern...

A point of amusement: Louisiana and Florida are the only states that have their own individual French consulates, as opposed to consulates that cover a multi-state district.

It is too late for this election, but it appears to me to be a silly exaggeration to say this terminates his political career -- he's not barred from running in future elections.

It's a fairly narrow technicality: Perkins owns two homes; both are in Shreveport but they are located in different electoral wards. He is registered to vote with the Shreveport home as his primary residence, but his "homestead exemption" is on his other home. This goes against state law which...