The love story between French politicians and the pen is well known.
Over the decades, many personalities have tried their hand at the delicate exercise of writing, by publishing novels, essays and autobiographies.
In this area, the current Minister Delegate for Citizenship Marlène Schiappa excels.
Since entering government five years ago, she has published no less than ten books.
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His little news, which will be released next June by the Observatory editions, will be called
It's a good situation, that, minister?
(a reference to the cult line from the film Asterix and Obelix: Mission Cleopatra).
Throughout the pages, the former Secretary of State for Equality between Women and Men will answer questions that the French may have about the daily life of ministers, days at the Élysée, protocol and its links with President Emmanuel Macron.
Her previous book,
Her Way of Being Mine
(Stock), told a love story between a Parisian mother and a political journalist from
Le Figaro
.
Released in October 2021, the novel is far from having met with great success since less than 500 copies have been sold.
Nickname of Marie Minelli
His first book
Les Lendemains had a taste of honey (Charleston)
as a member of the government was published in June 2017, a few days after his appointment in May.
A year later, Marlène Schiappa released three essays:
The Culture of Rape
(L'Aube);
The Second Sex of Democracy
(L'Aube);
So often distant from you: letters to my daughters
(Stock).
In 2019, she published
One and indivisible: The Urgency to defend the Republic
(Dawn) and another book under the pseudonym of Marie Minelli:
Dare the female orgasm
.
In 2020, two books by Marlène Schiappa once again made their debut on bookstore shelves:
Between All Women: Eleven Exceptional Encounters
(Grasset) and
Women's Rights in the Face of Violence
(Dalloz).
As for the French who would like to oppose Marlène Schiappa with the formula "
Minister's schedule
", to underline the fact that she would devote a lot of time to writing her books, the minister had already retorted in the columns of
Madame Le Figaro
:
"I don't play sports, I write books, I don't see why what would be allowed to these eminent ministers would be forbidden to me"
Marlène Schiappa's writing rate therefore surpasses that of the Minister of Economy and Finance Bruno Le Maire, who has published four books since the start of the five-year term.
The politician, who had the right to his mirror character in Michel Houellebecq's latest novel
Anéantir
(Flammarion) ("
Bruno Judge
, the
greatest Minister of the Economy since Colbert
"), had for his part met a frank success last year with his book
The Angel and the Beast
(Gallimard).