Conservative front-runner Mr. Sarkozy, the son of a Hungarian immigrant, was urging the French to work more while Ms. Royal pledged to "safeguard welfare protections".**********
UPDATE: Is Paris burning?
In Toulouse, police charged at demonstrators and fired tear gas after they had apparently attempted to climb the town hall in order to take down its tricolore flag.
One anti-Sarkozy protestor said: “They wanted to take down the flag from the town hall to show that France was in mourning.”
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