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Jean-Marie Le Pen disappointed with the sales of the second volume of his memoirs

2020-02-13T16:59:52.503Z


Jean-Marie Le Pen's latest opus sold 11,500 copies, according to the GfK research institute.


We can wrest the "Son of the Nation" while sulking the "Tribun du Peuple". Five months after the publication of the second volume of his memoirs, Jean-Marie Le Pen admits a little disappointed with his sales. When it was released in March 2018, the first opus, Fils de la Nation (Éditions Muller) immediately had editorial success.

To the point of exhausting, three days before its official release, the first 50,000 copies printed. The editor of the patriarch, Guillaume de Thieulloy, was entitled to expect an equivalent success for this second opus, covering a period much more sensitive and attractive, for those who are interested in the wings of the nationalist party as in the dynasty at its head for almost fifty years.

But this second book, Tribun du Peuple , which retraces the creation of the National Front in 1972, its electoral boom in the 1980s, the “detail” affair without forgetting the explosive divorce with Marine Le Pen, will have less appeal. According to the figures consulted by Le Figaro from the GfK research institute, "only" 11,500 copies have been sold to date.

Lack of appetite

Numbers to make envious number of political leaders, while remaining far from the peaks reached by the first volume: 39,000 copies to date according to GfK, including 24,000 sold during the single month of its release, in March 2018 "However, we do not follow direct and salon sales , " tempers the institute of studies. This could explain the difference with the figures presented by the publishing house of Jean-Marie Le Pen, which declares 30,000 copies sold for volume 2 against just over 60,000 for volume 1.

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In the entourage of Jean-Marie Le Pen, we recognize a lack of appetite of readers, not without advancing several elements of explanation: "Unlike the first volume where we had exceptional press coverage, the release of the second volume has was disturbed one after the other by strong news. Whether it be the death of Jacques Chirac, the attack on the Paris prefecture or the false arrest in the Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès affair ... " , lists the author's adviser, Lorrain de Saint-Affrique, who '' does not exclude a catch-up of sales in the coming months. The great age of the nonagenarian also imposed "a certain prudence" , and reduced the number of signing sessions to the minimum. Two remain to come, on March 14 at the Notre-Dame de France bookstore in the 5th arrondissement of Paris. Before one, near Bordeaux, in April.

The pen of a Minute ex

Another explanation is also murmured, this time more due to the content as to the style of the work. Unlike the first volume whose writing, begun in 1976, is largely that of Jean-Marie Le Pen, the second volume was almost exclusively written through interviews. Transcribed, according to our information, under the pen of Martin Peltier, former journalist for the weekly Minute, passed by the FN and the National Republican Movement (MNR) by Bruno Mégret, also convicted in 1996 for “contestation of crimes against humanity ". If curious and sympathetic could be enticed by the prospect of reading for a long time - 890 pages in total - the "Menhir" telling itself, that of browsing an authorized biography combined with the first person is necessarily less so.

Source: lefigaro

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