Who are the ten per cent of the French population that Emmanuel Macron wishes to ’emmerder’ or, as we say on this side on the Channel, ‘piss off’? It is a question that is rarely scrutinised, certainly by the foreign press. Are the refuseniks the Gallic answers to Novak Djokovic and Piers Corbyn?

There is in France, as in Britain, a vocal and aggressive anti-vax movement who propagate all manner of wild conspiracy theories about the jab.