From the cover, the title is afforded the luxury of the obvious.
It is characteristic of good ideas, particularly literary ones, to impose themselves to the point of wondering why no one had thought of them before.
By signing this captivating portrait of Marie-France Garaud, published this Wednesday by Éditions Fayard, Olivier Faye is talentedly filling a gap that he reveals at the same time.
It was high time to tell the story of the "Counselor".
Not in snatches, through portraits of great men - Pompidou, Chirac, Séguin, to name a few - in whose ear she whispered this mixture of ardor and intelligence.
But for itself.
For this unique journey which had, as a common thread, an insatiable taste for power, nourished by an uncompromising - because demanding - idea of France.
It is in the shoes of the journalist from
Le Monde
, then barely 30 years old, that we contemplate from the bottom up, during their first meeting, the political colossus already slightly stooped by age: "
Power do not share
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