Une Femme d'Etat [French]

By Michel Desgranges

English summary: "The scene's tragic violence had left Valerie trembling. She was reliving some of History's prodigious moments: Foucquet's fall from grace, the Eighteenth Brumaire, the laborious decapitation of the Marquis of Cinq-Mars, the Capitoline being levelled on Tarpeian Rock which online schoolbooks later related would soon be joined by Remoulard's fall, this Shakesperian event which she had witnessed and in which she had nearly participated as an actress..."Yet above all, she at last was beginning to grasp - having almost felt it in her flesh - that these men and women who were governing the people were of a different kind, another fabric, an essence unlike that of the common herd, and that they truly were - as had been announced by the advent of that demented German prophet of another century - supermen and superwomen. And she - Valerie Pignon - was now one of the "Chosen Men and Women." French description: La violence tragique de la scene avait laisse Valerie tremblante. Elle revoyait des moments prodigieux de l'Histoire, la disgrace de Foucquet, le 18 brumaire, la decapitation laborieuse de Cinq-Mars, le Capitole s'abimant sur la roche tarpeienne, que rejoindrait dans les manuels scolaires on line la chute de Remoulard, cet evenement shakespearien dont elle avait ete temoin, et presque actrice...Mais surtout, elle comprenait enfin, pour l'avoir quasiment ressenti dans sa chair, que ces hommes et ces femmes qui gouvernaient les peuples etaient d'une autre nature, d'une autre etoffe, d'une autre essence que le troupeau, etaient veritablement, comme en avait annonce la venue un prophete allemand et dement d'un autre siecle, des surhommes et des surfemmes.Et elle, Valerie Pignon, avait desormais rejoint les Elus, et Elues.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: French
• ISBN: 2251444041
• ISBN13: 9782251444048
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: Les Belles Lettres
• Length: 400 Pages