Hervé Gaymard and Arnaud Teyssier are respectively president of the Charles-de-Gaulle Foundation and president of its Scientific Council.
LE FIGARO.
- The collective book that you edited is a plea for the Fifth Republic.
In 2023, it will beat the record for longevity of regimes since the Revolution, since it will have lasted longer than the Third Republic.
What is the key to its longevity?
Hervé GAYMARD and Arnaud TEYSSIER.
- One could answer: its flexibility, its adaptability, which allowed it, in different periods of its history, to pass difficult milestones (for example, the parliamentary reading of the regime, during a period of cohabitation).
But the argument is reversible: by dint of being flexible and adaptable, hasn't the Fifth Republic lost its substance (it has known 24 constitutional revisions)?
This debate runs through the entire book, with often different points of view depending on the authors.
One thing is certain: our diet was not “tailor-made”…
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