Two years ago, Manuel Bompard took up boxing.
French boxing, the one that strikes with fists and feet.
It was
"to relax, let off steam, think about something else and for pleasure after the effort".
He has vivid memories of his solo hours with his trainer.
A little emotion pierces in spite of him under a silent shell.
We imagine him trying to win the gloves.
Why not, to get into the ring and face another amateur politician, Édouard Philippe, even if the latter has chosen English boxing.
“They say I look like him physically,”
Manuel Bompard slips in with a touch of gluttony, as if to advance the idea that they will one day meet face to face, if not in combat, at least in debate.
The same size, they have in common a wide, slightly balding forehead and a short beard.
But the power of seduction of the mayor of Le Havre is more obvious.
Bompard embodies the seriousness of a priestly mission even in the way he dresses...
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