Bertille Bayart: "Alstom, a story that ends well"

A symbol should know how to stay in its place. It shouldn't make his narrative lie. Take Alstom. For five years, the name of the company has not been so much that of a train manufacturer, as the synonym in collective memory of an industrial defeat. Alstom, since 2015, it's cannon fodder for political debate.

Declinists, sovereignists, nostalgics, anti-capitalists, for some conspirators, like to tell their story in their own way: that of a large French industrial conglomerate, emblematic of the Thirty Glorious Years, sold to the cut by an antipathetic boss (Patrick Kron) in the name of the interests of a greedy shareholder (the Bouygues group), dismantled with the blessing of an accomplice minister (Emmanuel Macron) in favor of an unscrupulous American group (General Electric). Worse - or better - still, the last nail in the coffin of this French monument had been planted last year by Europe, with the veto put to marriage with the

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