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Guillaume Perrault: "Giscard, straight profile"

2020-12-04T18:40:26.522Z


FIGAROVOX / ANALYSIS - In light of the upheavals that have occurred over the past forty years, we understand how much the former president attached himself strongly to the right of his time.


During his investiture speech at the Elysee Palace on May 27, 1974, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, if he greeted his unfortunate adversaries (Chaban-Delmas and Mitterrand), did not say a word about his predecessors, de Gaulle and Pompidou .

And throughout his seven-year term, he was accused by the Chiraquians of wanting to please the left rather than his voters - not without arguments.

But what is striking in the light of the upheavals that have occurred over the past forty years is, on the contrary, how much Valéry Giscard d'Estaing still attached strongly to the right of his time.

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The man knew that war was not an abstraction.

He was 14 years old in 1940, was the dismayed witness of the debacle and, after having passed the Occupation in Paris, enlisted in the Liberation and was able to participate in the end of the German campaign.

Later, the last act of the Algerian drama tore his family of thoughts, the Independents and peasants.

If he accepted the Evian agreements, the young minister of the General gradually counted around him,

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Source: lefigaro

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