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Emmanuel Macron honors Jean Daniel at Les Invalides

2020-02-28T18:15:37.856Z


The President of the Republic paid national tribute to the founder of Le Nouvel Observateur and a figure from the second left.


Hey oh the left! Accused of leaning too far to the right since the start of his mandate, Emmanuel Macron tries to recall the fond memories of the socialist voters who had contributed to his victory in 2017. Unfortunately, these two left-wing figures have disappeared in recent days. Former socialist minister Michel Charasse first, the founder of Le Nouvel Observateur , Jean Daniel, then.

For the first, the head of state made a speech during the funeral. Sober. For the second, the wink to the left is much more supported with a national tribute to the Invalides. And as celebrating the memory of the disappeared is also a bit of talking about yourself, Emmanuel Macron sketched in the hollow of his speech some subliminal messages.

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The President of the Republic thus welcomed a " great conscience of the left, support of Pierre Mendès France, fascinated by Mitterrand " which brings together "Sartre, Foucault, Barthes, Lévi-Strauss ... in the columns of the same newspaper, this house common to the whole left which was so dear to him, Le Nouvel Observateur " , a newspaper which" was of all the fighting, all the conquests, all the progress ".

An "at the same time" before the hour

It was also an opportunity for the Head of State to address the press in hollow, to which he sometimes criticized, if not often, his excitement and his lack of perspective. What made Jean Daniel a monument, an example for an entire profession, was above all his daily practice of the profession. This unique way of crossing the journalist profession, the love of letters and that of ideas, "recalled Emmanuel Macron, as if echoing this sentence by Jean Daniel who explained, in 1976:" The truth seems to me to be most often in the complex, in the contradictory. "

Not necessarily from the right, nor completely from the left either. " I always felt a little bit of claustrophobia when I was locked up inside a camp, even if it was the most just camp, the one I believe to be that of socialism ," explained Jean Daniel. I always wanted to look beyond, over the barrier, to see if an arm does not stretch that we have not grasped . A kind of "at the same time" before the time for this holder of the second left, which embodied Michel Rocard on the political scene.

Jean Daniel was not only a tenor of social democratic ideals, but the conductor of a demanding and pluralist public debate

Emmanuel Macron

"With his mind devoid of Manichaeism, his commitment and his struggles which never prevented him from accepting the complexity of the situations and the arguments of his opponents, Jean Daniel was not only a tenor of Social Democratic ideals, but the leader of a demanding and pluralist public debate ”, had already welcomed the Head of State in the official Elysée press release published after the death of Jean Daniel.

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Several members of the government, including the Minister of Culture, Franck Riester, attended the ceremony but also some figures from the left, such as Lionel Jospin and Anne Hidalgo. During the tribute, a text by Albert Camus, friend of Jean Daniel, was read. Since the start of his mandate, it was the ninth time that Emmanuel Macron has organized a national tribute to the Invalides, after Simone Veil, Jean d'Ormesson, Charles Aznavour or Jacques Chirac.

Relive the tribute paid to Jean Daniel at Les Invalides - Watch on Figaro Live

Source: lefigaro

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