Passers-by in a hurry take the time to turn around at the sight of a familiar face. They recognize Édouard Philippe alone, without a tie, in a white shirt and moccasins. This July 22, at the end of the morning, the man with the two-tone beard taps his MacBook at a table at the Basile, the student bar of Sciences Po, the Parisian school run by his friend Frédéric Mion. The former head of government, 49, is enjoying one of his first Wednesdays spent three years without the Council of Ministers, where his successor, Jean Castex now sits.
Three weeks earlier, in the same 7th arrondissement of Paris, he left his office in Matignon to the mayor of Prades (Pyrénées-Orientales), another defector of the Republicans, enarque like him. "Be good!" , he told him on the red carpet of the handover. Back in Le Havre (Seine-Maritime), the juppeist smiled upon discovering, a few days later, his new title torn from the ecologist Nicolas Hulot: political personality
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