Universal suffrage will render its judgment.
Let us recognize however that, on the eve of the first round of the presidential election, the French seem more disillusioned than enthusiastic.
And we fear an abstention that would erode the prestige of this queen election.
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The weariness is at its height.
Everyone thinks only of passing the rest of his days in peace.
We no longer vote.
(...) We only think of ourselves, and always only of ourselves.
(...)
There is no longer any opinion;
we make fun of all the Constitutions made or to be made”.
These words of Mallet du Pan, in December 1797, seem to describe us.
The political recomposition announced whatever the verdict of the polls does not fascinate more, and rather arouses irony.
"Nobody cares about anybody.
There are neither affections nor opinions”.
This judgment, during the Hundred Days, of a liberal monarchist, Prosper de Barante, also applies admirably to the state of minds at the end of Emmanuel Macron's five-year term.
In a fragmented France, it becomes...
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