We often confuse him with his brother, the advertiser and former mayor of Cannes Bernard. But at his venerable age, we ignore this kind of vanity. Pierre Brochand is what used to be called with admiration a great servant of the State. Ambassador of France, having spent most of his career abroad, he returned to our country to direct the DGSE (French counterintelligence) under the mandates of Chirac and Sarkozy. He drew from it an incomparable experience of the dangers threatening France. A few months ago, he had presented in front of the Res Publica, a foundation directed by Jean-Pierre Chevènement, a historical and sociological fresco of a high standard. The long, detailed, brilliant, sometimes arduous text, unrolling a thought impeccably arranged in drawers, had the good fortune to be spotted by Marcel Gauchet himself. But the intellectual consecration did not create a media echo. Only Le Figaro, last week gave him the floor.
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