At that time – the early 1970s – the economy was flourishing, the feeling of freedom shared by everyone, and artistic creativity was dazzling. How can we not remember with a touch of nostalgia this France presided over by an Auvergne who knew how to embrace the need for...
creativity. Of him, at least, no one said that he was a character in a novel. That's all he would have missed. This president did not forget that he had been a normalien, and received first in the aggregation of letters.