In France, when the political game provokes disgust and contempt, and chaos prevails over order, roughly every fifty years for two centuries, a savior emerges.
It is on this recurrence that the book of Gérard Grunberg, scientific director of Science Po, fellow traveler of the second left, and director of the excellent online journal Telos, looks.
He does this by comparing the itinerary of five charismatic leaders: the two Bonapartes, the uncle (1799) and the nephew (1851), General Boulanger (1886), Marshal Pétain (1940) and General de Gaulle (1940 then 1958).
These paths of saviors differ in the extent of their successes and failures, but they are similar in the idea that these men have of their destinies or in the idea that the people have of their exceptional role - this is the case of General Boulanger,
Among their common points, let us note: the military past, possibly glorious;
the severity of the crisis that...
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