Elisabeth Borne can thank the deputies of La France insoumise.
Their relaxed and brawling attitude, by effect of contrast, made his speech monotonous and a little metallic almost soft and soothing to the ear.
Their crude opposition was also the most effective plea for compromise.
Faced with this hostility, the Prime Minister did not tremble.
She crossed, without being damaged, the thorny obstacle of the speech of general policy.
Rebellious, she says,
"to big sentences"
and
"to little words",
she preferred, to modulations and outbursts of eloquence, a severe form - lit up with a few mischievous smiles.
The spirit of geometry prevailed over the power of words, the catalog of measures over the contours of the grand design, the concern for efficiency over the ripple effect.
Technical, precise, tenacious: that's the Borne touch.
It has the merit of authenticity.
A Jansenist does not pretend to be baroque;
to paraphrase Cocteau, "one sings well only on one's branch"
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