It's an exercise she only engages in on very rare occasions.
Generally not very verbose about her personal experience, which sadly earned her becoming Pupil of the Nation when she was a child, Elisabeth Borne took advantage of the Crif dinner on Monday evening to lift a corner of the veil on her painful past.
At the rostrum of the Carrousel du Louvre, where she represented Emmanuel Macron - the Head of State received at the Élysée the President LR of the Senate, Gérard Larcher, to discuss the future reform of the institutions -, the Prime Minister returned to "
the beatings (and) the humiliations
” experienced by his father, Joseph Bornstein, during the Holocaust.
Which, survivor of "
the unspeakable
” eight decades ago, never recovered from this disastrous experience, and ended up committing suicide once returned to France, leaving behind his 11-year-old daughter.
Today known to have become the second woman head of government under the Fifth Republic, the person concerned saluted the memory of her family…
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