Many French people, it is well known, are not interested in politics. Long repeated televised debates are unlikely to wake them up in this period of the presidential campaign. Politicians are men and women like any other: they can be mean. Not to forget it, it is useful to read the new edition of the
Small dictionary of political insults
(Éditions du Rocher, under the direction of Bruno Fuligni). Recently, political insult has become rare, or quite low-end. François Hollande (whom Mélenchon called a
“pedal boat captain”
) compared Emmanuel Macron to a frog jumping from water lily to water lily. He takes himself for Jean de La Fontaine. We have seen better, as this raging book proves.
So of Nicolas Sarkozy about Jean-François Copé:
“He has a real propensity to arouse antipathy.
He doesn't always realize it, which can make the problem worse. ”
“He's a variety singer.
He does not run the
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