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The John Batchelor Show

Author: Sophie Pedder Title: Revolution Française Date of Publication: 2018 John Batchelor discusses how Macron gained banking experience at Rothschild before joining François Hollande'sadministration, eventually betraying Hollande to form En Marche! in

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

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4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Author: Sophie Pedder
Title: Revolution Française
Date of Publication: 2018

John Batchelor discusses how Macron gained banking experience at Rothschild before joining François Hollande'sadministration, eventually betraying Hollande to form En Marche! in April 2016. This move marked his break from traditional party politics and his ambition to reshape France's political landscape through his centrist movement.



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0:00.0

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0:23.6

I'm John Batchel.

0:24.6

Sophie Petter is the author of Revolution Francais,

0:28.6

The Quest to Reinventination.

0:30.6

This is Emmanuel Macron's political biography.

0:33.6

We've spent moments with his childhood

0:36.6

and his beloved drama teacher who becomes his beloved wife,

0:41.9

the First Lady of France now.

0:43.3

But it's important to identify where he learns politics and how he interprets that today.

0:50.8

He founds a party in April of 2016 called On Marsh, On the Move.

0:56.2

And he found it by going back to Amiens.

0:59.3

And there's a moment that it's clear in Sophie's book.

1:03.7

Nobody's quite inspired by why he goes to Amiens.

1:06.0

He has no relationship with it.

1:07.8

Well, he left Amiens when he was 17 years old, I believe, and went off to finish his

1:13.9

school, his back in Paris, but then he was interested in becoming a literateur, not a politician

1:21.5

whatsoever. And Sophie, this is another one of those moments where you speculate in the book.

1:27.1

He could have been the novelist

1:28.5

that he wants to be. He's written three novels that he won't show to anybody but Brigitte.

1:33.2

He's extremely well educated in French literature, in international literature, but he fails to get

1:38.6

into the school where all the literary superstars of France go. Instead, he gets into Science Poe.

1:46.6

What is Science Poe to the French?

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