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To mark the rentrée politique – when French politicians return to work after what is now an ostentatiously short holiday – Le Figaro ran a spread designed to crush the morale of any member of the French political class preparing to confront the challenges of the year ahead.

Caroline Broc’s life changed forever in October 2014 when a driver high on drink and drugs ran into her and crushed her legs.

She told Samantha David for Connexion he was doing 100kph in Lyon city centre when he mounted the pavement on which Caroline was walking and ran straight into her, narrowly missing another pedestrian and two young children.