Chantal Delsol: “The “mélenchonmania”, or the French taste for utopias of regeneration of the world”

*Chantal Delsol is a member of the Institute.

His latest published work is: “The End of Christianity” (Éditions du Cerf, October 2021).

Surprise: we are told that France has never been so far to the right, and yet, at the start of the legislative campaign, Jean-Luc Mélenchon imposes himself hands down as the best-placed challenger, the one in any case who makes the most noise and inspires the most hope in its supporters.

Of course, the talent of the leader of La France insoumise is indisputable, and certainly superior to that of all his opponents.

However, the mélenchonade we are witnessing represents a kind of paradox (triumph of the left while the country is on the right), which is rooted in French mentality and history.

The political scientist Guillaume Bernard recently argued that the current broad push to the right augurs a dextrogyre movement, succeeding the eternal French sinistrogyre slope of which Albert Thibaudet spoke.

But we do not see that we are…

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