Latest book: The Estates General (The Observatory, 2020).
Forty-two years ago, the French went "from night to light" - this is Jack Lang - by electing François Mitterrand to the presidency of the Republic. If idolatry declines for the man of Vichy and then of the Resistance, the demonstrator of February 1, 1935 making a pact with the communists forty years later, the fierce Minister of the Interior during the events of Algiers, became the first sponsor of SOS-Racism, the memory remains. And a certain fascination for this prince of ambiguity, the first opponent of General de Gaulle and the Fifth Republic before enjoying all his constitutional powers, and sometimes even beyond. From the permanent coup d'état to the incessant coup d'éclat, François Mitterrand, like all power freaks, left no heir behind. Except one, unexpected: Emmanuel Macron, who reveals this filiation in his second five-year term.
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