The people of Amiens do not appear to be especially enamoured of its most famous son, reports the BBC.
President Macron famously spent his youth in this northern cathedral city. His wife (and former teacher) Brigitte is from a well-known local family, the Trogneux, whose 150-year-old confectionary business still prospers on the high street.
But finding anyone to say a good word about the embattled French leader is not easy.
Outside the Carrefour hypermarket on the northern outskirts, by far the greatest number of people we questioned said they would be choosing the National Rally (RN) at the snap elections on 30 June.
Some had voted Macron in the past; some had voted left in the past; some had regularly voted far-right.
All had a similar mantra: We’ve tried everything else. What could possibly be worse than what we’ve got?
Macron unexpectedly called the snap election two weeks ago, after his party was trounced by the RN in the European elections. Now France is digesting the hitherto unthinkable possibility of a far-right prime minister after the second round on 7 July.
Aurélie, a 37-year-old cleaning lady with a two year-old son, said she had thought about voting left, but the ideas of the far-left France Unbowed (LFI) party (now in an election pact with the Socialists and others) were too much for her.