ORLEANS — Marine Le Pen, France's far-right candidate to succeed President Emmanuel Macron, kicked off her campaign Sunday vowing to "restore the rule of law" if elected next year. Le Pen -- the frontrunner in the polls -- seems to be benefiting from the convulsions France has been going through for weeks, which has seen violence flare on the sidelines of mass cost-of-living rallies. "We are going to restore the rule of law," she said, after looting and arson erupted on the sidelines of demonstrations last weekend. She was addressing 8,500 supporters of her nationalist, anti-immigration party in the city of Orleans, where Joan of Arc -- revered by the far right as a symbol of national resistance -- lifted an English siege in 1429. "We are proposing for the country not a return to the past, but the dawn of a new era," the 58-year-old told the crowd, which broke into chants of "We're going to win, we're going to win." Le Pen vowed to preserve France's cultural identity, from its language and traditions to its values and way of life, drawing thunderous cheers from supporters waving French