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Donald Trump's Grasp of French History, Urban Planning Is Limited

However, he's not completely wrong about Napoleon.
Bastille Day at Paris's Place de L'Étoile, which was not, in fact, designed by Napoleon.Reuters

President Donald Trump talked about a lot of things in his latest interview with the The New York Times, and much of today’s pundit chatter revolves around his suggestion that he wouldn’t have hired Attorney General Jeff Sessions if he’d known the guy was going to recuse himself from the Russia investigation.

But here at CityLab our urbanist ears pricked up when we saw this: a report of a conversation with France’s President Emmanuel Macron.