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France, that old country that believed itself to be full of common sense, is immune neither to populist sound and fury, nor to woke indignation.
Gerard Araud. Former French Ambassador to Washington. Author of “Henry Kissinger, the diplomat of the century” (Tallandier).
By Gerard Araud
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Lhen on November 9, 2016, at 1 a.m., in my residence as French ambassador in Washington, I realized that Trump had won the presidential election, I sent a tweet in the emotion of the moment which was to give me, despite myself, the fifteen minutes of fame that Andy Warhol was talking about. The Paris media interpreted it as a criticism of the winner when I meant that after Brexit, a few months earlier, this electoral result highlighted the deep crisis that was going through Western democracies, which no one had detected then. I was wrong in expression but right in analysis. Since then, no one denies that our democracies, with different intensities and modalities, face the same rebellion from a substantial number of their…
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