The week of FigaroVox - “Anthology of Georges Pompidou”. The political class, fond of big words and small remarks, has taken up abundantly its “ Stop annoying the French!” There are too many laws, too many regulations in this country!�” Directed at the time against his young collaborator Jacques Chirac, this sentence was enough to color his legacy with liberal, even anti-statist, overtones.
If General de Gaulle's successor was alert on the subjects of inflation, buzzing bureaucracy and the excesses of the technostructure, he was nevertheless anything but an enemy of the State.