Seventeen years ago, on December 11, 2003, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing was elected French academician in the chair occupied by another illustrious Head of State, Léopold Sédar Senghor.
Earlier that year, the five academies got together, as they do every year, to deal with a common subject.
By a strange coincidence, the chosen theme is:
"Change and continuity".
Two words on which Giscard was elected President of the Republic on May 27, 1974. I will remind him of this when he goes for one of his last major public interventions, on March 12, 2018, in front of the Academy of Moral Sciences and policies, at the Institute.
This time, it is a question of meditating on "
public opinion and power"
.
And on this question he asks himself:
"Does public opinion influence the head of state more than he leads it?"
Giscard could deal with the question in a general way, applying it to any head of state.
To Churchill or to de Gaulle.
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