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When Bruno Le Maire inspires a character in Michel Houellebecq

2021-12-29T21:15:56.543Z


STORY - The writer and the Minister of Finance have maintained a correspondence for the past fifteen years.


July 2019. The noise spreads quickly in the corridors of Bercy: Michel Houellebecq has lunch peacefully at the ministry self-service, alone in front of his tray.

The writer has spent the morning touring this 1980s Republican palace with the minister's chief of staff and is resting for a moment.

"I would like to see offices,"

he had simply stated over the phone a few days earlier.

He will not be disappointed.

Once Bruno Le Maire has been greeted, the author is taken for a complete tour of the premises: the minister's hotel, the pier on the Seine, the prestigious floors of the Treasury Department, car parks… The great writer, camera in his hands and handbag slung back, wanders, without a word, between the relatively deserted offices that day.

"It's funny, there aren't a lot of papers,"

he is just surprised.

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The visit seems to have depressed him quite a bit.

Described as

"a totalitarian citadel grafted into the heart of the city",

the Ministry of Finance, with its endless corridors ...

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Source: lefigaro

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