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From "gazelle modesty" to "Mr. intelligent": the oratory art of Jean-Luc Mélenchon

2021-10-29T06:20:20.618Z


ANALYSIS - If the rebellious candidate is known for his mastery of verbal jousting, he does not deprive himself of small sentences and insults to win against his opponents. Le Figaro has peeled hours of speeches.


"

Go and show yourself

", "

the Republic is me

",

"the government is like a bad fish and it rots through its head

", "

I intend to make the revolution on the plates

" ... For more than ten years, he has shaken the political scene.

Whether on television sets or in the National Assembly, Jean-Luc Mélenchon multiplies shattering interventions.

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Unanimously qualified as an outstanding speaker, the former French teacher mixes different types of speech.

From Latin references to insults towards its competitors, welcome backstage at Jean-Luc Mélenchon's Colosseum.

From "

I

" to "

you

", the oratorical art of a tribune

"

It is you who do not know anything

, sweeps aside Jean-Luc Mélenchon, facing Jean-Jacques Bourdin on October 19 on BFMTV.

Or who make me say anything.

»Thus the elected representative of Marseilles perfectly handles the figure of speech of the paradox.

By opposing the “

you

”, journalist, to the “

I

”, Mélenchon, he insists on what separates the two men.

Worse, he places his interlocutor as responsible for a false statement according to him.

An oratorical pirouette which he is fond of.

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Source: lefigaro

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