Jacques Le Petit [French]

By Mauduit-L

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, Napol on 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?

Originally the chief editor, then assistant-director of Entreprises, Laurent Mauduit is now working as an editor for Le Monde. He is the author of several works, including, in collaboration with G rard Desportes, La Gauche imaginaire et L'Adieu au socialisme (Grasset) and in collaboration with Philippe Jaffr , Les Stock-options (Grasset) et La Grande m prise (Grasset).

• Format: Paperback
• Language: French
• ISBN: 2234057582
• ISBN13: 9782234057586
• Release Date: February 2022
• Publisher: Stock
• Length: 356 Pages
• Weight: 0.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.3" x 8.5"