Going on the paths of the Fifth Republic with Roland Cayrol is to embark on a journey in a left that is in very bad shape today.
This figure of political science, prince of the polls and well-known face of the media makes us relive the great hours of French-style social democracy in the making.
It is the beating heart of this book where we feel the author completely at his business, between the Club Jean-Moulin, the struggles of the PSU (Unified Socialist Party) and the militancy of the CFDT.
We are in the 1960s and 1970s.
“This course,
he writes,
will have forever anchored my opinions in a democratic base”,
of which the citizen is
“the base and the demanding subject”.
With the Club Jean-Moulin, we participate in the life of what was the ancestor of a think-tank.
This club brought together the fine flower of the moderate left intelligentsia of the time.
We meet Stéphane Hessel, Jacques Julliard, Dean Vedel, Michel Crozier and many others.
They have a crush on Mendès France but...
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