Argenteuil

The Petit Bras of the Seine at Argenteuil, painted in 1872, will be displayed at venues including the Ferens Art Gallery, Hull.

In Argenteuil, an impoverished suburb of Paris, Claudine Pasquier, a retired school secretary carrying two grocery bags, rattled off Mr. Macron’s “little phrases” — like when he called train stations places “where one encounters people who are succeeding and people who are nothing” or his reference to the “crazy amounts of dough” spent on benefits for the poor.

From a distance, the rows and rows of abundant blooms are so vividly hued that they look color-corrected to within an inch of their lives; squint and “The Rose Maker” becomes a poppy field worth of Monet in Argenteuil.

ARGENTEUIL, France — Fayçal Ziraoui loves a good challenge.

“I’ve never set limits on what I can learn,” Mr. Ziraoui, a 38-year-old French-Moroccan business consultant, said in an interview at his home in the Paris suburb of Argenteuil.