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Jean-Pierre Robin: "Macron bashing, an infantile disease of the French"

2023-05-21T17:58:50.133Z

Highlights: Denigrating others, especially high-profile people, has become a national sport. "Macron is a contemptuous little technocrat, a hypra-intelligent roquet (sic)," says actor Michel Vuillermoz. Anglo-Saxons have the same word for this, "bashing", which means both striking violently and morally exhausting. Our friends across the Channel love "French bashing" to make fun of our quirks. More paradoxically, we have seized on this practice and the expression.


ANALYSIS - Denigrating others, especially high-profile people, has become a national sport. Emmanuel Macron is the ideal Turk's head.


Why so much hatred? "Macron is a contemptuous little technocrat, a hypra-intelligent roquet (sic)," explains in an interview with Le Figaro on May 12 the actor Michel Vuillermoz, who has just left the Comédie-Française. "He is above ground, he does not know the industry," judges for his part on the radio (Europe 1) Loïk Le Floch-Prigent, former president of nationalized companies, whose feats of arms are known and who can boast of having touched the floor of cows in the worst conditions.

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Slander, slander, there will always be something left," says an old saying of Latin origin. Today we would rather say, "denigrate, hit hard, you will hit the mark, you will make the buzz". The Anglo-Saxons have the same word for this, "bashing", which means both striking violently and morally exhausting. Our friends across the Channel love "French bashing" to make fun of our quirks. More paradoxically, we have seized on this practice and the expression...

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Source: lefigaro

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