How do the former presidents of the Republic spend their leisure time?
We know that General de Gaulle conversed with France, penetrating the insignificance of things, looking at the stars.
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing loved to tell love stories.
He was perhaps showing by this that he was continuing the work of modernizing the presidential office which had begun in 1974. In 1994, he had published a fairly innocuous novel,
Le Passage
.
His novel
The Princess and the President
made more noise.
Its title quite well says the subject of the book: the author puts in scene a President of the Republic in the mid-1980s and a very pretty British princess, very mediatic and unhappy in household.
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Everyone remembers the beginning of Madame de La Fayette's novel,
The Princess of Cleves
: “
Magnificence and gallantry never appeared in France with so much brilliance as in the last years of the reign of Henry the Second.
This prince was gallant, well built and in love;
although his passion
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