Everyone can feel it: our public life is running out of steam.
The gulf between the martial declarations of the host of the Élysée Palace and the paralysis on the ground comes to light on the occasion of the pandemic, and arouses vertigo in a country which was built by the State and expects everything from him.
But the list of disappointments of the French for more than twenty-five years is too long to be attributable solely to the inadequacies of one or other of our successive presidents.
It is important to uncover the roots of our collective powerlessness.
One of the veterans of the National Assembly, known to enthusiasts of public affairs but who never sought the light (he had work), François Cornut-Gentille, deputy for Haute-Marne (LR) for nearly thirty years and for a long time mayor of Saint-Dizier, undertook this salutary task.
The fruit of his reflection,
Knowledge in order to be able - Sorting out of democratic impotence
(Gallimard), published in the valiant collection "Le Débat", is a reading
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