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Frédéric Rouvillois: "Royalty is a family with its beauties, its greatness and its smallness"

2023-01-09T19:25:38.723Z


TRIBUNE – Prince Harry publishes Spare (The Substitute), a vitriolic book evoking in particular his tumultuous relationship with his brother William, the crown prince. Faced with the burden of the youngest son of Charles III, the writer and essayist recalls "the singular nature of royalty".


Frédéric Rouvillois is general delegate of the Fondation du Pont-Neuf and the author of numerous remarkable works.

He notably co-edited with Christophe Boutin and Olivier Dard the “Dictionary of Progressivism” (Éditions du Cerf, 2022).

There are titles that say nothing, or mean nothing, and others that say everything, and even a little more.

Such is the case with that of Prince Harry's book,

The Substitute

.

By itself, it reveals both the genius of the publisher, who guessed which sensitive chords he had to strike to ensure his product a bookstore success, and the sad position of the author, a poor little prince lost in the wide world, tossed between bitterness, resentment and incomprehension.

Read alsoThe great media unpacking of Harry, prince revenge

What Harry seems to have forgotten, and what those who will soon be flocking to supermarkets to buy his book may not grasp either, is the singular nature of royalty.

While the Republic is defined as the relationship of a people with itself...

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Source: lefigaro

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