“To greet “Léo”, this gang leader”
CHRONICLE – With the death of François Léotard, it is a certain – respectful –…
“To greet “Léo”, this gang leader”
CHRONICLE – With the death of François Léotard, it is a certain – respectful – conception of politics that disappears.
Le Figaro Magazine
Francois Leotard at 53, we are at the start of the 1995 school year. He has just been Minister of Defense for two yearsby Edouard Balladurin the second cohabitation government chaired by François Mitterrand. And since Jacques Chirac, just elected to the Élysée, did not want to renew him as minister, he took the opportunity to publish a farewell book to the government which he entitled My freedom (Plon).
“I am very afraid today, he said, may our country not be touched by this self-loathing that has eaten away at the most beautiful democracies. The progressive abandonment of the language, of the taste it gives for French words, the abyssal absence of perspective that is common to us, the systematic primacy of derision, are among the few elements that we can easily point out… » To the executives of the Republican Party, which he still chairs, he addresses these words which barely mask his sadness: “To be victorious is not necessarily to win, it is to be free.”
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