Everyone goes there, the hour is not the exception.
In his latest book,
Confront
(Stock), the former President of the Republic François Hollande makes up himself as a fabulist and does not mince his words.
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Macron, a "
frog
", "
without a compass
"
Its first target is obviously its former Minister of Finance, who has become President of the Republic. Emmanuel Macron is not only described as "
a man of no doctrine
" but also "
changing opinions according to events, jumping from one conviction to another like a frog on water lilies
". Could this be an allusion to the fable of La Fontaine where the amphibian wants to be as powerful as an ox to "
match the animal in size
"?
Later in the text, he identifies it with "
a traveler without a compass
", the title of a painting by Jean Dubuffet in which are represented "
brain landscapes which aim to restore the immaterial world which inhabits the mind of man.
», According to the painter.
"
The traveler without a compass
" also evokes he a stray browser disorders seas, without map or purpose?
By the maritime metaphor, François Hollande would he also like to underline the inexperience of his former foal?
Edouard Philippe, "
an octopus behind a cloud of ink
"
An absence of clarity that the former president also criticizes Edouard Philippe.
The latter still camouflages, according to him, “
his real intentions in a kind of rhetorical fog, like those octopuses who hide behind a cloud of ink
”.
To believe that François Hollande is definitely a real sea dog, able to spot faulty ships, even in his own ranks.
The "
Lilliputian
"
left
If Anne Hidalgo is "
a woman of composure, determination and tenacity
", let us note the indefinite adjective "
all
" to magnify the greatness and especially the integrity of the newly inducted PS candidate, the rest of the left n t has no wind in its sails, to spin the maritime metaphor.
"All the candidates are Lilliputian
", attack François Hollande. Inspired by the island of Lilliput, imaginary land in
Gulliver's Travels
by Jonathan Swift, written in 1721, a Lilliputian person is someone very small, in reference to the inhabitants of the island.
François Hollande is not kind to his political family, which also seems to wander in the debate of ideas. The fights are, for the former president, just as "
microscopic
" as "
picrocholines
", from the Greek "
pikros
"
,
"
bitter
" and from "
kholê
"
,
"
bile
". François Hollande resumes here his hat of chief of the armies to refer to the picrocholine war, conflict in
Gargantua
de Rabelais. A struggle
"between institutions, individuals, often burlesque adventures and whose motive appears obscure or insignificant"
, specifies the
Larousse
.
A reference to the multiple candidacies, ranging from Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the "
ball for the left
" to Arnaud Montebourg, a "
Zorro of politics
", still according to François Hollande.
Zemmour, "
a little thing
"
Another political figure has been scrutinized by the former president.
Eric Zemmour is a “
Little Thing
”, which nourishes “
a growing bitterness
” of not being sufficiently recognized.
Note the syllepsis, which, by not matching the noun and the adjective in gender and number, emphasizes "
small
".
If the polemicist is not (yet?) An inhabitant of Lilliput unlike the tenors of the left, he does not escape political and physical criticism.
"It is not Trump who wants, even in miniature"
, concludes François Hollande.