PARIS — Former French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal announced Friday that he will join the increasingly crowded race for president next year. “Since I profoundly love France and I profoundly love the French people, yes, I have decided to be a candidate to the presidency of the Republic,” Attal, the leader of French President Emmanuel Macron’s party, Renaissance, said at the conclusion of an event in the picturesque village of Mur-de-Barrez in southern France. The 37-year-old politician must now