Title : The Ninth Wave - Geneviève Gennari - book

Summary :

With an innate sense of phrasing, an art of portraiture, and a taste for the unfolding of history, Marie-France Garaud tells us about the past fifty years. The de Gaulle/Mitterrand opposition, but also Georges Pompidou, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, and Jacques Chirac.

Don Juan, the proud seducer, challenges the noble Commendatore in Mozart's opera. The latter triumphs, however. Don Juan, struck down, disappears into hell. Everything can then return to normal. "It never lasts long, the feast of fools," sings Masetto. The Fifth Republic carried within it a similar challenge, that of Don Juan-Mitterrand against de Gaulle. But in our history, it is Don Juan who ultimately prevails over the Commendatore. The man who dared to declare: "Gaullism is only a personal adventure" left behind carefully chosen seeds of destruction that continue to perfect his work beyond his lifetime. And, following in the footsteps of his predecessor, Jacques Chirac has become, consciously or not, the executor of the man who prided himself on being the "last true president" of the Fifth Republic. What mysterious force then led the presumptive heir to the Gaullist tradition to follow in the footsteps of François Mitterrand, thus completing the dismemberment of the political structures with which the General had endowed France? For it is indeed dead, the Fifth Republic, after a long agony, and the time has come to draw up the death certificate while the Feast of Fools continues unabated... It is a story that lasted barely fifty years and whose roots we have already forgotten. It happens to be that of my generation and that, from a small corner of the stage, I saw its thread unfold.

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