The presidential pre-campaign summers follow one another and are never alike. Between 1988 and 2016, return to the last straight lines of the most gripping political battles, which were also the springboards of ambitions. Against all odds… Former Prime Minister Raymond Barre alongside Jacques Chirac at the Puy du Fou theme park (Vendée) in September 1987.
The disease has been diagnosed and his name is spread in the newspapers.
In the summer of 1987, France would be suffering from "sinistrosis".
She has just buried Dalida, sees the ranks of her 2.6 million unemployed swell and comes out of a year of social protests.
At its head, François Mitterrand and Jacques Chirac transform the first cohabitation into a civilized, but merciless, face-to-face.
A President of the Republic against a Prime Minister in office: the two men do not know it yet, but the presidential campaign which is being prepared will be of rare brutality.
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