The National Rally party’s presidential candidate and the head of its parliamentary faction, Marine Le Pen, warned #Paris against a conflict with #Russia, which remains a #nuclear power. “I would like to remind you that Russia is a nuclear power,” Le Pen told Politico in an interview. “I do not want #France to go to war with any nuclear power.” She recalled a warning by France’s Napoleon-era statesman Charles Talleyrand, who said: "I know a thousand ways to lure the #Russian bear out of its den