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Sébastien Le Fol: "Our country is stratified by contempt"

2021-09-02T13:25:40.727Z


INTERVIEW - In a book, the journalist calls for an end to stagnation: French society is still largely governed by precedence, codes and customs.


He himself felt French contempt.

“This book is not a neutral journalistic investigation.

I wrote it with my heart and my guts, ”

says Sébastien Le Fol, now managing editor of Le

Point

, after having been deputy director of

Le Figaro

.

Combining testimonies and French history, the journalist denounces the origin of the malaise of French society.

Refusing to play the game of ambient victimization, he publishes

"Stay in your place ...!"

, at Albin Michel.

See also

Have the French given up taking the social elevator?

LE FIGARO.

- The contempt that you denounce in your book is the result of lived experience?

Sébastien LE FOL.

-

I knew early on that I wanted to become a journalist.

The learner, a cousin, who was a site supervisor, said to my father:

"This job is not made for people like us, get this idea out of his mind."

He had internalized this injunction 

: "Stay in your place"

.

This sentence still haunts me.

The model of success in France is so narrow, classic and dissuasive that many French people censor themselves.

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Source: lefigaro

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