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Now that nearly everybody has grow to be a Gaullist, that Pompidou is a heritage determine, even a museum determine, the brand new leaders of the correct and the intense proper should draw from much less apparent references to invent connections with personalities who, usually, are now not there to contradict them.

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Marie-France Garaud, Alain Peyrefitte: it has been a very long time since we heard a lot of those names of political leaders whose works flow into primarily in e-book packing containers. But now they arrive again.

It’s Sarah Knafo who says in Le Figaro to have “learned a lot” throughout his Sunday afternoon teas with Marie-France Garaud, invokes Margaret Thatcher, “who put the United Kingdom back together”, or, on the finish of the enterprise podcast “Génération Do It Yourself”, hosted by Matthieu Stefani, recommends the e-book French Evil, of former minister Alain Peyrefitte. She additionally cites Alain Madelin, “who had lots of ideas for France”. That’s good, the podcaster spoke with him the day earlier than on video, ultra-cool along with his cigar and his Ray-Bans. It is Nicolas Sarkozy who, in his Diary of a prisoner, celebrates his hyperlinks with the Chiracs, “from the same family of heart and energy” that he, forgetting extra shortly that, in flip, he betrayed him to assist Edouard Balladur within the 1995 presidential election.

The previous proper has grow to be classic. A bit like listening to Michel Delpech, evoking former RPR executives has the benefit of taking older voters again to their youth and soaking younger folks in nostalgia for an optimistic interval, particularly for individuals who didn’t comprehend it.

It does not matter if historical past has judged them too authoritarian or reactive: because the excesses of Donald Trump, all of the previous divisive personalities now provide the reassuring patina of figures from the final century. The extra brutal the current, the extra the previous turns into accessible.

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