To open this book is to leave the faces of Lent, the grim information, to stroll through time, in Paris, across the world, in excellent company.
From the Mitterrand years to the present day,
Jacques Julliard's
Notebooks
offer a great journey.
At the forefront of the spectacle of the world, the editorialist links by the graces of a free spirit, the anecdote of the day and the wide shots of the story.
Like Hugo who, in his
Things seen
, sees everything, goes from a ministry to a supper, from a theater to a barricade, Julliard has a breakfast with the Head of State (everyone liked to talk to him him except Emmanuel Macron who never received it), a lunch at a minister's house, a writers' cocktail, a scholarly conference.
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Trips to Japan or St. Petersburg air this hectic life.
Two tempos alternate in this frenzy, that of the news, and the slower one of secret ruminations.
Julliard notes, in fact, in his "thing", the movement of
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