PARIS — Vice President Kamala Harris and French President Emmanuel Macron covered plenty of ground during a two-hour meeting on Wednesday but avoided the elephant in the room: France’s anger over the United States’s role in scuttling its multibillion-dollar submarine contract with Australia.

“They actually didn’t talk about submarines,” a senior administration official told reporters on a call Thursday.

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