“The rehabilitated seven-year term”
, wrote the collaborators of Valéry Giscard d'Estaing on the internal notes of his cabinet of former president.
They thus designated the initiatives supposed to restore an unloved mandate.
“Each time, Arthur crossed out“ rehabilitated ”and replaced it with“ regretted ”,”
whispered his collaborators.
"Arthur" was one of the code names of the former President of the Republic, whom others, more sarcastic, nicknamed "the Ex".
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It was not until more than forty years that this wading president with the hissing accent and gun-dog eyes was finally missed.
Until then, the French had only retained from his seven-year term the tears of Simone Veil to defend abortion.
It was for a very long time the emblem of those years of "passage" between the Gaullian gesture and the Mitterrandian rupture.
The last optimist
The multitude of tributes that followed his passing finally put VGE back in the nostalgia of a carefree era.
It had started after the end of the war
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