In an interview last summer, Steve Bannon said that his website, Breitbart News, planned to open a Paris bureau ahead of France’s 2017 presidential elections. Following the election of Donald Trump in November, Reuters reported that Breitbart hoped to fuel a similar upset in France, in support of far-right candidate Marine Le Pen.

Bannon, the former executive chairman of Breitbart News, is now a top adviser in the Trump White House, and France’s elections are less than three months away. Yet Breitbart still has yet to launch a French-language website. A 22-year-old student is hoping to keep it that way.

The student, who asked to be identified only as Antonin, bought the domain name breitbart.fr following the US election, along with…

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