Xavier Patier has published more than 25 novels, short stories and essays, such as “Soon we will be nothing” (La Table Ronde, 1994), Jacques-Chardonne prize, and “Le Silence des termites” (La Table ronde, 2008), Roger Nimier Prize. Last published work: “Demain la France. Tombs of Mauriac, Michelet, de Gaulle” (Le Cerf, 2020), Catholic Grand Prize for Literature.
In a famous editorial from March 1968, Pierre Viansson-Ponté explained how the France of the post-war boom period was bored in a State “
neither really unhappy nor really prosperous
” and how this boredom made it inflammable.
The journalist made these remarks two months before Daniel Cohn-Bendit's friends stabbed Gaullism in the back in the name of Nanterre students' right of access to the girls' dormitory and opened Pandora's box.
Half a century later, our country, older by four generations, three major economic crises and a dozen alternations, has come back from everything.
Boredom was his threat: he is…
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