Nil nisi bonum.
"Deaths, nothing but good."
In the aftermath of the death of Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, the torrent of praise has not dried up.
The entire political class paid him a unanimous homage, saluting here
“modernity”
, there
“reformism”
, elsewhere the
“intelligence”
of a
“man of progress and freedom”
.
The former President of the Republic would surely not have been surprised.
"And the praises begin, those praises which are refused to the living and which become so convenient after death, because they no longer commit to anything"
, he observed in his Memoirs after the death of his predecessor, Georges Pompidou, on April 2, 1974. They no longer commit to anything, except to write the first lines that the memory of his life will leave in history.
As is customary on the death of a President of the Republic, it is his distant successor Emmanuel Macron who held the pen, decreeing a national mourning during a solemn speech delivered at 8 p.m. Thursday evening.
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