The release is first of all a personal relief for François Bayrou.
When he speaks of seven years of
"nightmare",
the High Commissioner for Planning, more than a political sidelining, speaks of a personal ordeal, first shared with his accomplice of four decades, Marielle de Sarnez, whose premature death he always attributed, just three years ago, to the opprobrium of a suspicion which the courts ultimately established was unfounded, even if it was with the benefit of the doubt.
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It is above all in an emotional way that the Béarnais suffered that his panache might not be recognized as white by the French, from whom he has not given up on receiving one day the supreme anointing.
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Did this long legal mortgage weigh on his political career?
These are certainly the beginnings of this affair of MoDem assistants in the European Parliament which forced him to leave the first Macron government where he had just been appointed Keeper of the Seals.
But, if Henry IV thought that Paris was worth a mass...
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