Marc Sangnier, this secular Christian who evokes François Bayrou | EUROtoday

Uno compass. This is how François Bayrou described Marc Sangnier, on December 5, throughout a convention on the Catholic Institute of Paris on the legacy of this “awakener” – that was the title of the day – that the centrist had insisted on honoring him along with his presence. To respect a long-standing dedication to Anicette Sangnier, the granddaughter of the founding father of Le Sillon, who had invited the person who was to be appointed Prime Minister just a few days later to debate on the theme of “renewed democracy” with a one other “prime minister”, Bernard Cazeneuve.

Who apart from Marc Sangnier might thus convey collectively in a stupendous ecumenism Bayrou the centrist Christian Democrat and Cazeneuve the agnostic social democrat, enthusiastic about François Mauriac and likewise the Évans…