Dear subscribers,
We know it now: whatever the result of the final between the French team and Argentina, whether it's Messi's day of glory or that of Mbappé, it will remain above all football.
Victory will not be enough to mend the fractures, nor to pull France out of its decline.
Whatever happens, inflation, the risk of electricity shortages, will not have disappeared on Monday morning.
As well as the difficulties of the hospital or chronic insecurity… The lyrical illusion of the 1998 World Cup, which had benefited Jacques Chirac so much, has disappeared.
Already in 2018, after the victorious campaign in Russia, Emmanuel Macron had not known a state of grace.
On the contrary, it had been the beginning of a long period of successive crises with the
Should we sulk his pleasure?
That no !
As Philippe Delerm, a connoisseur of the round ball, reminds us, seeing France qualify for the fourth time in the World Cup final in just twenty-four years is all the more enjoyable since the Blues have long experienced defeat.
“Sadness is beautiful, but joy is not bad either.
The meaning of one gives the other its full value”, sums up the writer.
And if the World Cup will not be followed by the big night, "the time of a match of 90 or 120 minutes, everyone will share something at the same time in front of the same screen", underlines Olivier Guez.
As a response, albeit ephemeral, to archipelization.
So go Blues and long live France!
Good weekend and good game!
Alexandre Devecchio
The great interview of Figaro Magazine
The author of Les
Dépossédés
, Jérôme Fourquet, has been describing for many years peripheral France where the working classes live against a backdrop of deindustrialization and mass unemployment, while the co-author of
La France sous nos yeux
, Jean-Laurent Cassely, observes the lifestyle of the urban bourgeoisie.
Tuesday, December 6, in front of the readers of
Le Figaro
and Le
Figaro Magazine
, the two essayists exchanged their vision of these two Frances that everything opposes.
To read on FigaroVox.
Debates of the week
The tartuffe ball in the face of the blockade decided by Baku to starve the Armenians.
The French composer of Armenian origin, Michel Petrossian, is enraged by the silence of Western heads of state, the European Union and the Pope who, for him, look away from the blockade of Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) by the 'Azerbaijan.
Will euthanasia and assisted suicide subvert personal conscience?
The philosopher Chantal Delsol examines the moral and anthropological questions raised by the legalization of euthanasia and assisted suicide.
While Paris is already doing so badly, the Bois de Vincennes, its green lung, is in danger!
The metro line 1 extension project (which is ultimately the responsibility of the State) and, to a lesser extent, Anne Hidalgo's imprudent choices threaten the integrity of the Bois de Vincennes.
Hundreds of oaks including 130 centenarians (the oldest dates back to Louis XV) are in danger, demonstrate the two architects Dominique Dupré-Henry and Tangui Le Dantec.
[Editor's note: the Minister of Transport announced that he refused the plan to extend line 1 after the publication of this forum].
Is democracy the best possible regime?
Economist Amartya Sen publishes his Memoirs.
Story of an Indian humanist straddling several worlds, whose work on famine and extreme poverty are landmarks.
Saving gender difference.
The great reporter at
Figaro
Eugénie Bastié was invited to deliver a communication to the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences.
Against the theoreticians of deconstruction, she defends the infinite richness offered by the alterity of the sexes.
Praise of the bourgeoisie.
In our country, hatred of the bourgeois is as widespread as it is unjust, argues the essayist Olivier Babeau.
Far from being idle, the bourgeoisie works enormously and derives its pride and legitimacy from it.
The imperfection of meritocracy calls for its improvement and not its negation through an egalitarian discourse that only disempowers and feeds resentment.
The Ideas Club with Pierre Manent
Invited by Eugénie Bastié, the philosopher Pierre Manent, who has just published
Pascal and the Christian proposal
, debates the dechristianization of France with Michel De Jaeghere and Jean-Marie Guénois.
The test of the week
Recreate the sky.
Genesis and future of populism
, by Antoine Cargoet, Éditions du Cerf, 192 pages 18 €.
Editions du Cerf
The decade 2010-2020 was that of the end of the liberal libertarian cycle and the return of the peoples, according to Antoine Cargoet.
To discover on FigaroVox.
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