At the Agricultural Show, France saw, live, a barricaded head of state, separated by a cordon of police from his citizens. This salon of the refused, as in these days when History crystallizes, contains a mess.

Also a symbol of the exhaustion of the verb. Certainly, Emmanuel Macron was shocked in the face of the cross-questions of the “yellow caps”, but we did not find the supercharged candidate of the eternal grand oral. The great debate has shrunk, the eloquence...