Thirty years after the disappearance of François Mitterrand, two works return to the future of a person eager to manage his narrative | EUROtoday

Books. Two works to commemorate a disappearance. On the event of the thirtieth anniversary of the demise of François Mitterrand, his former chief of employees Jean Glavany signed a e-book of recollections: François Mitterrand. Intimate conversations (Perrin, 312 pages, 22 euros), whereas two historians, Judith Bonnin and Pierre-Emmanuel Guigo, current a brief biography of the previous socialist president, soberly titled Mitterrand (PUF, 224 pages, 16 euros).

In the primary, Jean Glavany recounts in fragments his “Mitterrand moments”of their assembly on the Socialist Party (PS), in 1979, at nightfall. On May 10, 1981, in Château-Chinon (Nièvre), in room 15 of the Hôtel du Vieux-Morvan, he obtained the decision from Lionel Jospin asserting the victory. Glavany rushes down the steps to search out the winner, speaking in regards to the Morvan forest, threatened by conifers. When he tells him that he’s elected, Mitterrand stays imperturbable: “Okay, we’ll see about that later. » “You will learn that even the most urgent can always wait a little”he informed her one other time.

At the Elysée, he’s his chief of employees, at his aspect in all places. One day, earlier than a flight to the South-West, the president warned him {that a} ” friend “ (Anne Pingeot) will journey with them. Hidden behind a newspaper, the collaborator listens to them speaking about Greek antiquities, in a “incredibly erudite conversation”.

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