Emmanuel Macron has made a brutal return to the front line since the end of parliamentary debates on his pension reform. He has spoken in turn, in the news of 13 hours; a televised address; Le Parisien; Politico; several regional dailies, including those of the Ebra group.

"Listen, I'm not into political commentary," falsely swept the head of state, facing the camera, at the turn of a question about his relations with his prime minister. As if to close a sequence that he himself had opened at theend of April, believing that his "mistake" had been "not to be...