LE FIGARO.
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The president was diagnosed positive for Covid
, which fed an intense media sequence.
Should we rejoice in the transparency that now reigns at the top of the state?
Christophe DE VOOGD.
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The media sequence is far from over!
Continuous news channels and social networks will find, at least until the president's recovery (as likely as desirable), a food of choice in this
"sick body of the King",
as Arnaud Benedetti noted on FigaroVox.
Basically we are witnessing, beyond what might seem anecdotal, the explosive encounter between the eruptive fever of our postmodernity and long-lasting events, as Fernand Braudel said.
Facts which touch on anthropological constants, analyzed by Ernst Kantorowicz in his
Deux Corps du roi
and by Johan Huizinga when he described the emotion of the court and the people in times of princely illness in his
Autumn of the Middle Ages
.
This is the first reason for the interest of
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