“Nero at the Elysée”, story of a hope upset by the presidency of Emmanuel Macron | EUROtoday

Good emotions don’t make good literature, they are saying. On the opposite hand, upset loves can produce piquant analyses, particularly in politics. This is the case of the most recent work by Nicolas Domenach and Maurice Szafran, Nero on the Elysée (Albin Michel, 256 pages, 20.90 euros), story bothered with deep disappointment.

The two feathers of the journal Challenges are amongst those that had been excited, nearly ten years in the past, by this “exceptional man”who had “intuitions, courage, ambition for the country and for its citizens” and claimed to be left-wing. Seasoned political journalists, they believed in Macron’s promise to reconcile the French, to boost vitality, to instill a “European hope capable of making us see France in a big way again”and humbly admit it from the introduction.

It is true that Emmanuel Macron seduced the 2 editorialists, granting them in October 2016 a “long and powerful interview”they boast. In this lengthy interview, the candidate “On the Move”voluble, affirmed the crucial must “rediscover a common imagination” and invent a “new form of democratic authority”. Editorials laudatory of the younger candidate multiplied within the weekly because the presidential election approached, to the purpose of scary protests from the journal’s editors’ society.

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