“The triumph of books by Sarkozy, Bardella and Zemmour fuels the cultural battle and creates a dilemma among booksellers” | EUROtoday

OUnsurprisingly, books and bookstores have turn out to be the popular terrain of the cultural battle happening in France. In latest months, an avalanche of political works, knitting collectively tales near a catastrophe movie, lean to the correct and particularly to the acute proper. With id and sovereignism as their driving drive, they’re the scouts for the battles to return: the municipal elections in March, the presidential election in 2027. Commentators are striving to reduce the phenomenon, which quantities to placing their heads within the sand, as a dozen of those very right-wing books have achieved staggering scores for the reason that fall of 2025; and it continues, figures from the Edistat institute inform us. Incredible, sure, particularly at a time when promoting 10,000 copies is a miracle.

A Prisoner’s Diaryby Nicolas Sarkozy, is transferring in direction of 200,000 gross sales. Jordan Bardella launched two books in two years, accumulating 320,000 copies. We owe the Stakhanovist Philippe de Villiers round fifteen essays in 13 years on a France in decline, the final two of which added collectively (Populicide And Memoricide) exceed 400,000 copies. It’s 70,000 for Eric Zemmour’s newest opus (Mass shouldn’t be stated), removed from his information, however many could be glad with it.

General Pierre de Villiers, like his brother Philippe, writes like a machine gun: 5 vastly profitable books in eight years. We might cite the latest works of lawyer Gilles-William Goldnadel (One Flew Over a Cuckold’s Nest2025) and journalist Sonia Mabrouk (And if tomorrow every thing have been reversed2024), and two launched in January, the essay We reside aspect by aspectby Alexandre Devecchio, journalist at Figaroon our chapter integration mannequin, and Towards a French Trump?by Nicolas Conquer. The icing on the cake might be positioned, on January 28, by Marion Maréchal who, in an essay, establishes herself as inheritor to her grandfather, Jean-Marie Le Pen.

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