You have to see Laurent Fabius jiggle inwardly when he talks about the staff of the Élysée Palace when the Socialists and Communists came to power after May 10, 1981. “
They were astonished that we ate with forks!
He said. Of course, he's exaggerating. And Ségolène Royal, then adviser to François Mitterrand also laughs, by making the right speak: “
They are not at home! It was with us, all these palaces of the Republic… ”
François Léotard, UDF deputy at the time, recognizes in self-mockery the fear of his camp, that of“
the arrival of the Soviets on the Fields
”. Giscard, however, was confident, "
a confidence
," he declared in campaign,
which comes from the depths of our blood and which is breathed with the scent of our earth
”.
The Socialists had hoped for their victory.
Mitterrand, after two presidential failures, was working intensely on it.
But it was Jean Glavany today expressing his sentiment:
"We écarquillions
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