As the first anniversary of Emmanuel Macron's re-election approaches, a French professor of political communications, Philippe Moreau-Chevrolet, looks back on "this somewhat lost year", which ended with the adoption of an unpopular pension reform. "By occupying the media field and focusing everything on his person", the President thinks that "people will end up forgetting, as if by magic", says Moreau-Chevrolet, a professor at Sciences-Po University. "The risk in this ego trip is to lose yourself and the link with the country." IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES