If macronism only lasts for a term of office, it is likely that historians of the future will not dwell on it: it will have been a light version of Giscardism, an energized radical-socialism, a page barely written with a balance sheet that fits on the back of a metro ticket.
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Emmanuel Macron has qualities, however, starting with a bursting alertness.
But as Guillaume Tabard notes in
Macron.
The unfinished revolution
, 2017, the date of his entry at the Élysée Palace, in no way compares to 1945 or 1958, the two times when General de Gaulle overhauled if not remade France.
Not even in 1981, the year of work-study.
Macronism will it have been one more step in the great collapse of France, against a background of economic and moral disintegration?
This is the question that underlies Guillaume Tabard's fascinating book where, after a substantial introduction, its readers will find his
Figaro
chronicles
which make their morning happiness and which are still as current as ever:
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