Marine Le Pen is scheduled to address 10,000 members of her National Rally (RN) party in Orleans on Sunday. (EPA Images pic)ORLEANS: Marine Le Pen, France's far-right candidate to succeed president Emmanuel Macron in elections in six months, was to give her first campaign speech on Sunday, a day after protests sweeping the country again flared into violence.
Le Pen - the frontrunner according to surveys - is seen benefiting from the convulsions France has been going through for weeks, punctuated by mass rallies and violent clashes on Saturday and a week earlier.
More than 400,000 people marched in major French cities on Saturday to protest the rising cost of living, with groups of masked youths breaking away to provoke police, who responded with tear gas and water cannon.
