The signing sessions had to be canceled.
Confinement fell badly for General Pierre de Villiers, who has just published
L'Équilibre est un courage
(Fayard), after
Servir
(2017) and
What is a chef?
(2018).
Both have sold nearly 180,000 copies.
At the end of October, he was still able to meet his audience in a Bordeaux bookstore and measure the impact of his speech.
A hundred people - Covid obliges - had come to listen to it at the Mollat bookstore.
"He had created a link with the public,"
recalls the bookseller.
After an introductory intervention, in the form of a diagnosis of the company,
"the general wanted to have an individual exchange with those present"
, she says.
He was looking for
"nuggets"
, he says, that is to say, meetings.
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Since his resounding resignation from the post of Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces in July 2017, an unprecedented fact, General de Villiers has become a public figure.
Not to say political.
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