A specialist in European issues, Jean-Louis Bourlanges was a Member of the European Parliament from 1989 to 2007. He is notably the author of “La Tragédie du center” (Plon, 2009).
LE FIGARO What can you tell us about the man Giscard d'Estaing?
Was he a great President of the Republic?
Jean-Louis BOURLANGES.- Valéry Giscard d'Estaing does not have the place he deserves in today's opinion.
For a simple reason: the French have retained a priori, in the history of the Fifth Republic, the figure of the founder of the regime, General de Gaulle, and that of the great alternator, François Mitterrand, thanks to which the Gaullist regime became legitimate. in the eyes of the left.
If we adopt a more national and less political analysis grid, we see that the hierarchy of presidents is no longer the same.
Next to De Gaulle who dominates everything from the head and shoulders, and who appears as the man of the liberation and reconstruction of France, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing is, for his part, the champion
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