A perfume from the seventies
The seventies, it is said, are coming back into fashion.
Two fascinating books revive the political flavor of this period.
As Christmas approaches, I highly recommend them.
With
After so many silences
(Bouquins), Constance Guichard-Poniatowski immerses us in the complexity of the French right at the time of Pompidolism and Giscardism, through her personal political history.
With
La Belle Époque
(Gallimard), Franz-Olivier Giesbert continues his intimate story of the Fifth Republic where again, the personal story is part of the national theater of those years.
The Guichard saga
A double name.
Constance Guichard is the daughter of Olivier Guichard and the daughter-in-law of Michel Poniatowski, having married his son Ladislas.
These two names, I checked with colleagues in their thirties, no longer mean much to journalists today.
Yet these are two figures who have had a profound impact on political life for three decades.
Two close friends of two Presidents of the Republic...
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