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Alain Duhamel / Éric Zemmour: "Is Macron a Bonapartist?"

2021-03-19T06:16:46.740Z


MAJOR INTERVIEW - In "Emmanuel le Hardi" (Éditions de l'Observatoire), Alain Duhamel draws a daring parallel between the practice of power of Emmanuel Macron and that of Napoleon, whose bicentenary of death is being commemorated this year. For his part, Eric Zemmour sees in the ...


THE FIGAROVOX.

- Alain Duhamel, you see in macronism the Bonapartism of the 21st century.

Éric Zemmour, do you share this point of view?

Alain DUHAMEL.

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Bonapartism is not Bonaparte!

On the one hand there is a genius, Bonaparte, and on the other a talent, Emmanuel Macron.

When I speak of 21st century Bonapartism, I am referring to civil and democratic Bonapartism.

This is not totally incompatible with Bonapartism since the Additional Act of 1815, for example, was an outline of democratic Bonapartism.

Bonapartism is first of all a break with the previous society.

With Bonaparte it was a huge break, the end of the Revolution, and with Emmanuel Macron a clear break, the end of the classic alternation.

Second, it is the taste, the necessity, the passion for authority.

It is brilliant in Bonaparte and it is visible in Emmanuel Macron.

Third, it is permanent daring, risk taking.

It is triumphant with Bonaparte and constant with

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Source: lefigaro

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