Wow that was unexpected. And fascinating. De Villepin, if I recall correctly, wrote a book on Napoleon. I'm a bit sad you didn't ask him about that!
What's most interesting about him is that not only is he a classic ENArque but made his administrative career in Affaires étrangères, notoriously the track least in touch with the "terrain", despite its glorious history as a home for democratic intellectuals in the IVth and early Vth republic. Villepin was not considered an intellectual heavyweight as foreign affairs or prime minister so to try to run as a man of ideas now.....now in this moment...seems almost tragic.
Wow that was unexpected. And fascinating. De Villepin, if I recall correctly, wrote a book on Napoleon. I'm a bit sad you didn't ask him about that!
What's most interesting about him is that not only is he a classic ENArque but made his administrative career in Affaires étrangères, notoriously the track least in touch with the "terrain", despite its glorious history as a home for democratic intellectuals in the IVth and early Vth republic. Villepin was not considered an intellectual heavyweight as foreign affairs or prime minister so to try to run as a man of ideas now.....now in this moment...seems almost tragic.
"Last year marked a return to public prominence, when strong denunciations of Israel won him unexpected popularity on the French left"
Unexpected! You must be joking.