By Alexis Brézet, editorial director.
History! It's a word that we are scrupulous about using. Out of modesty, to avoid sinking into grandiloquence, and also out of fear of the consequences that would have to be drawn from it. When everything is going wrong, a soothing little voice whispers to us, there's no point in adding to it. After all, our country has seen others, hasn't it? Things will work out in the end…
And yet, it must be said, hammered home at times and at the risk of dealing a blow to the morale of the reader who, at the start of the year, would dream of brighter prospects: yes, the crisis that France is going through is historic! Since 1958 and the end of the IVe As a Republic, our country had not experienced such a collapse.
And again… Four prime ministers in one year, even the IVe graduate had not succeeded! We have to, we learn, go back to 1934 (Chautemps, Daladier, Doumergue, Flandin) to find the equivalent of the quadruplet Borne, Attal, Barnier, Bayrou. If we…
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