Tag: Philippe
Edouard Philippe: why he will not be Minister of Education
In July 2019, the former mayor of Le Havre Antoine Rufenacht published a column in Le Figaro to affirm that Edouard Philippe would make a very good mayor of Paris.…
Avignon Festival: “The Garden of Delights” by Philippe Quesne, magician poet
The Boulbon quarry, mythical place of the Festival d’Avignon, reopens after 8 years of closure to the delight of festival-goers. It is in this stone crater surrounded by pines and…
Philippe Vasset, story in a haunting voice
Voices can displease just as much as they can seduce. In “A Cappella”, the latest novel by Philippe Vasset, the narrator seduced by a voice is surprised to overwhelm a…
trial of Philippe Manier, the pleadings of the civil parties
Last straight line in the trial of Philippe Manier. This former chief warrant officer of the Nyanza gendarmerie, in the prefecture of Butare in southern Rwanda, is being prosecuted before…
Philippe Brun: “Is Edouard Philippe nostalgic for French Algeria?”
The Express: In his interview at L’Express, former Prime Minister Edouard Philippe questions the Franco-Algerian agreement on immigration, believing that it offered Algerian nationals advantages “more favorable than common law”.…
Edouard Philippe: Kohler, Darmanin, Le Maire, Claude Chirac… 36 hours like no other
“You are crying because you are a man.” For a moment, the audience widened their eyes, strained their ears. When an enarque speaks of an enarque, when a State Councilor…
How Edouard Philippe plays with his time
They are happy. Even relieved. In the ranks of Horizons, many welcome the interview with Edouard Philippe in the pages of L’Express on the theme of immigration. The government has…
Edouard Philippe in everyone’s mind, Julien Denormandie does not want to go to the Elysée…
What would politics be without its stunts, its low blows, its twisted blows, its dirty tricks…? Because, as Edouard Philippe would say, “we have to do things seriously without taking…
Edouard Philippe and immigration: the weight of words
Can we talk about immigration in a calm and nuanced way, dare we add in a civilized way? At a time when public debate suffers from few subtleties, when the…
Edouard Philippe and the Franco-Algerian agreement of 1968: the taboo that has become a totem
“Ah, that’s interesting.” On the phone, Xavier Driencourt has the intonation of those who have obtained satisfaction. The former French ambassador to Algeria, from 2008 to 2012 then from 2017…