Article published in
Le Figaro
on January 9, 1996
What can we say about François Mitterrand, who has been successively and simultaneously adored more than anyone and even more hated than he has been adored?
Only one thing, perhaps: he's a devil of a man.
When he left, after fourteen years - an absolute record for a President of the Republic - the Élysée Palace, many of his enemies, and even more of his friends, did not hide a sigh of relief: we were finally rid of this man to whom the verse Vigny addressed to women could be applied better than anyone else:
“
Always this companion whose heart is not sure.
"
Get rid of?
Not really.
Malraux used to say of the General in hiding to Colombey: "
The Commander is in the cupboard."
"François Mitterrand is not a Commander, and he is not in the closet.
Failing to settle in this Pantheon of which he perhaps dreamed, he settled, for better or for worse, in the memory of the French.
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