PARIS (AP) — As they get to know their new Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu, a loyal ally of President Emmanuel Macron who had been remarkably low-key before taking one of the top jobs in the land, the French are also discovering that he has a somewhat unusual habit: He likes to butt heads.

Instead of the greeting that many French use to say hello — two, and in some places even three or four, kisses on the cheeks — the 39-year-old former defense minister has been repeatedly spotted in his first days in office giving gentle head-butts to male colleagues.

Although not new, it’s got French media talking — and digging into the prime minister’s past before politics, when he toyed as a teenager with the idea of becoming a monk.

Le Monde and other French publications say Lecornu’s way of greet

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