Baron: title of nobility entered into political language to designate the restricted circle of those who, by their proximity, their seniority, their influence, count with a president.
There floats around them a scent of mystery as well as power, like knights of the Grail having the Élysée as their cenacle.
If the name was passed down through the presidencies, it primarily concerned the barons of Gaullism.
It is to them that Pierre Manenti, already author of a
History of Social Gaullism
(Perrin, 2021) and a biography of Albin Chalandon (Perrin, 2023), devotes his new book.
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The authorship of the formula goes to Jean Daniel who, in 1963, in
France Observateur
(today
L'Obs
) thus designates five relatives of the founder of the Fifth Republic having taken the habit of having lunch secretly, every Wednesday or almost, in a private mansion on Boulevard Saint-Germain (now the House of Latin America).
These are Michel Debré, Jacques Chaban-Delmas, Roger Frey…
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