Correspondent in Berlin
"
We will find ourselves in the cosmos
", promised Giscard d'Estaing in 2013 to his friend Helmut Schmidt.
It was two years before the death of the German Chancellor.
Arte television had brought the two men together in a lounge of the prestigious Adlon hotel, overlooking the Brandenburg Gate, in Berlin.
With his cane resting at the foot of the armchair, the former head of the federal government lit his eternal cigarette, while his partner discussed Monetary Union, the great work of both of them.
Like facetious accomplices, they bickered gently over figures, in particular to assess how many people were present at the Jean Monnet Committee in 1972, the first time they met.
It was two years before their respective accession to power.
The beginning of a friendship of almost half a century, uniting a social democratic leader, from the middle class, to the aristocratic leader of the center right that was VGE.
The couple was identical to the one formed more
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