Balance is courage.
The third book in three years by General Pierre de Villiers arrived in bookstores the day before the assassination of the history teacher of Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, Samuel Paty.
He did not believe he was saying so well when he wrote:
"The recklessness has lasted too long."
He was Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces in 2015 when the
Charlie Hebdo
, Bataclan and Hyper Cacher
attacks took place
.
He kept the memory of superb speeches.
But today?
His readers tell him:
"We are fed up with speeches.
It is time to take action. ”
To read also:
General Pierre de Villiers: "French pride will be the engine of reconciliation"
The first book of General de Villiers, published three months after the Head of State had separated from him, was entitled
Servir
;
the second:
What is a chef?
While writing the third, last year and during the health crisis, he remembered the words of Emmanuel Macron, on board the aircraft carrier
Charles-de-Gaulle: "I did not succeed in reconciling the people French with its leaders. ”
The current President of the Republic speaks of a territorial, digital, social, identity, cultural divide.
He prefers to evoke major risks: the great downgrading of the Franc
Why?
Villiers will have passed
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