The suicide of Olivier Marleix continues to excite the complosphere | EUROtoday

It is a e-book which, with out making any noise, is on the best way to changing into a publishing success. Three months after its launch, French dissolution. The finish of macronism (Robert Laffont, 2025), the posthumous work of the previous deputy (Les Républicains) of Eure-et-Loir Olivier Marleix, who killed himself in July 2025, on the age of 54, has crossed the edge of 30,000 copies bought – or 33,681 precisely, in accordance with knowledge from the Gfk institute.

An wonderful efficiency for a political e-book, far forward of Xavier Bertrand (3,155 copies for Nothing is ever written, at Robert Laffont), Marine Tondelier (3,912 copies for Tomorrow, if all goes nicely…, by Albin Michel), additionally printed within the fall of 2025, or Edouard Philippe, whose essay The Price of Our Lies (JC Lattès), launched in June, peaked at 12,392 copies. In this space, solely the locomotives of the very right-wing publishing home Fayard – equivalent to Nicolas Sarkozy, Philippe de Villiers or Jordan Bardella – outperform Olivier Marleix.

How to elucidate such success? The former president of the LR group within the National Assembly, nevertheless, doesn’t provide any shattering revelations on this work, to which he introduced a conclusion two days earlier than hanging himself in his home in Anet (Eure-et-Loir). He is content material to attract up a harsh evaluation of Emmanuel Macron’s train of energy, in a narrative crossed together with his personal journey inside a stunted and divided proper.

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