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Jacques Le Petit

Jacques Le Petit

Mauduit, Laurent

Paperback

Biographies GeneralLiterary Criticism

ISBN10: 2234057582
ISBN13: 9782234057586
Publisher: Stock
Published: Feb 21 2022
Pages: 356
Weight: 0.87
Height: 0.74 Width: 5.32 Depth: 8.47
Language: French

Jacques le Petit to confer Jacques Chirac this kind of nickname may seem like a polemical gimmick. The next presidential election is approaching; this is the time to take stock, not the time for invectives and pamphlets. Moreover, this nickname invariably recalls the other one, Napoléon le Petit, used by Victor Hugo to denigrate Napoleon III. with whom the current president seems to have little in common. And yet...If we were to draw a detailed portrait of Jacques Chirac, it would indeed be the portrait of an avatar, the last heir of a very old tradition of the French Right: Bonapartism. We have to go back to the origins of a regime that grants incredible powers to the president and weakens all the counter-powers to make sense of drifting off of the left and of its dramatic consequences: the growth of abstention, and the irrepressible progress of populism.
At the heart of the French crisis we find this strange hitch, which, two centuries in, we must urgently question. If, after Napoleon le Grand, came Napoleon le Petit, does it mean that France should continue to endure, after De Gaulle - the Grand Charles -, the reign of Jacques le Petit?

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