Where did François Bayrou go? | EUROtoday

C‘was a really very long time in the past. In 1997. After the dissolution pronounced by Jacques Chirac on the superb recommendation of Dominique de Villepin, François Bayrou needed to depart the Ministry of National Education, which he had occupied for 4 years, to provide technique to the boiling Claude Allègre. Just a few months after the appointment of it, I query a pillar of the rue de Grenelle on the frame of mind that reigns within the head of the “mammoth”. “Oh it’s very simple,” he stated to me. Imagine that our large ministry is a automotive. From the time when Bayrou was driving, the passengers made a visit in very snug circumstances, with out the slightest jerk, till they understood that the driving force didn’t know the place he was going. He was content material to hurry anybody. Eh …