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French election descends into soap opera with Segolene Royal defeat

By Gina Doggett PARIS — Twin rivalries — one political, the other amorous — doomed Segolene Royal, former partner of French President Francois Hollande, to suffer a humiliating defeat in Sunday’s legislative polls. Conceding defeat, Royal initially kept her remarks in the political arena, bitterly slamming the “political betrayal” of…