On Sunday, June 9, the French went to the polls to elect their representatives in the European Parliament. Little did they imagine then that, a few hours later, President Macron would dissolve the Assemblée Nationale, thus precipitating the possibility of far-right leader Jordan Bardella taking Prime Minister Gabriel Attal's place, should his party win a majority in the snap parliamentary elections. Nor could they have foreseen that the country's conservatives would be tearing themselves apart over leader Eric Ciotti's unilateral decision to make a political alliance with the Rassemblement National (which led to him being ousted), and that the left would succeed in forging an alliance.

Le Monde looks back at one of the craziest weeks in French politics.