The first reception is a steel look, piercing the interbage of the door of a Parisian apartment. Damoue without night sleeves of a trendy brand of a trendy brand carried on a bottle green sweater, portable around the neck held by a strap, Edith Cresson, 90 years old, lives there surrounded by books. In the white living room, two sofas face each other, installed on the chevron parquet. On the neighboring chair, the last Goncourt, “Houris” by Kamel Daoud, is placed near the ashtray where a cigarette has just been extinguished. Next to it, a work by Boris Cyrulnik and a book on her that she highly recommends us, as if she wanted to avoid repeating herself, once again. Thirty years after the departure of the Elysée of President François Mitterrand, who had appointed him in 1991, an interview with the one whose history will remember that she was the first Prime Minister’s first woman in France.
PARIS MATCH. Have you watched François Bayrou’s general policy declaration on January 14?
Edith Cresson. Yes. It was good, in any case I found that what he said, his program, was consistent with the necessities of the moment. There was nothing shocking in his statements.
Did it remind you of yours on May 22, 1991?
-Me, it was very different, I was the first woman in this position in France and it was therefore very difficult. In England, Margareth Thatcher had already been appointed more than ten years earlier, in Portugal there had already been a Prime Minister (in 1979, editor’s note) …
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