“It’s a bit of a shame actually…“
A major figure of the current left, a particularly publicized speaker last summer allowed herself a “slight anecdote”, as she said herself, in the middle of a meeting. An assumed “funfact” in the form of a literary recommendation.
“Well there you go, I have Jordan Bardella’s book…“, she spoke to an amused audience. “No no wait, that’s not all, you should have read it, because…“, continued the speaker. This rhetorician is Marine Tondelier, the national secretary of the Greens (EELV) and a particularly familiar face of the New Popular Front. To whom we have dedicated a portrait.
And in front of an amused public, the elected official, long presumed to be Prime Minister, and a woman committed to feminist issues, did not stop there: “In fact in his book, Jordan Bardella mentions having encountered political figures who they consider sectarian, because they are unpleasant to him, when reading it… Except one… Marine Tondelier!“
And the confession really begins…
“It’s very embarrassing”: Marine Tondelier’s confession about Jordan Bardella
Because Marine Tondelier has a taste for suspense and reveals a few minutes later what literally “haunted” her to her audience: “In his book, Jordan Bardella says that Marine Tondelier, therefore, would have given him, during an evening between politicians… A charming smile!“. A revelation that makes the public laugh a lot…”How to resist at the same time?“, asks his interlocutor. Marine Tondelier’s “charming smile”, a subject which has not necessarily circulated in the political press.
But should we see in this enamored description the beginning of a rom’com like Love at First Sight in Notting Hill between two very opposed political figures? This is a bit what the national secretary of the Ecologists is ironic about. Before continuing…
Marine Tondelier did not really emerge unscathed from this discovery which concerns her directly, straight out of a rose-tinted novel. And about which she knew absolutely nothing until then. Stating straight away: “When I come across this page of the book, it’s very embarrassing in fact… Because I say to myself: but Jordan, what are you talking about?“
“And then well, I understood that indeed, I had been able to smile that evening, because I smile naturally in life… But above all I told myself that in fact, no one should ever smile at him, Jordan“, laughs the politician. Hence the possible misunderstanding caused by Marine Tondelier’s smile, a “charming smile” comparable to that of Julia Roberts?
Or when a political meeting becomes a stand-up act…
However, the opportunity to remind, behind the joke, that women politicians are too often reduced to their looks… And to their smile. Whether it’s a pest or not. Another party representative and elected official puts it into words in this confession. A testimony that reeks of experience, and says a lot about a certain ordinary sexism.
