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Xavier Patier, a former collaborator of Jacques Chirac at the Élysée, is also a writer. He has published
Reste avec moi
(Gallimard, 1994), Jacques-Chardonne prize,
Le Silence des termites
(La Table rond, 2008), Roger-Nimier and
Blaise Pascal
prize
, the night of ecstasy
(Cerf, 2014).
His latest work is
Demain la France.
Tombs of Mauriac, Michelet, de Gaulle
(Le Cerf, 2020).
One of my former bosses, a visionary entrepreneur in the pharmaceutical industry, often said:
“You should never kill a brand.
Never.
Even in turbulent times.
"
The head of state is too young to have known this great entrepreneur: he resolved to kill a brand in the turbulence, the brand" ENA ".
We have to believe that he had strong reasons for that.
These were domestic political reasons.
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ENA: "Burning an elitist symbol will in no way resolve the weakening of the sense of the State"
This brand indeed offered two very different images in France and abroad: in France, the acronym ENA had become the object of hatred all the more passionate because it was virtual,
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