Author: Sophie Pedder Title: Revolution Française Date of Publication: 2018 Sophie Pedder's 2018 book, discussed by John Batchelor, highlights Emmanuel Macron's tough political style. During the 2017 campaign, Macron confronted hostile strikers in Amien
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🗓️ 15 September 2025
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Author: Sophie Pedder
Title: Revolution Française
Date of Publication: 2018
Sophie Pedder's 2018 book, discussed by John Batchelor, highlights Emmanuel Macron's tough political style. During the 2017 campaign, Macron confronted hostile strikers in Amiens after being upstaged by Marine Le Pen. He envisioned a "Jupiterian" presidency, but Yellow Vest protests shifted his approach from perceived arrogance.
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| 0:26.2 | This is CBSI in the world. |
| 0:27.2 | I'm John Batchel. |
| 0:29.0 | It's a pleasure to speak with Sophie Petter, |
| 0:31.7 | the bureau chief of the Economist magazine in Paris. |
| 0:35.5 | She is also the author of Revolution Francaise, |
| 0:37.3 | the story of Emmanuel Macron, a very young president, still |
| 0:39.4 | four years into his term. France has five-year terms. The re-election is 2022. The decision to found |
| 0:46.9 | what becomes a political party on Marsh is made in Amiens in April of 2016. A year later, |
| 0:53.8 | a lot of events in between, |
| 0:55.9 | it's between the first and second round of the French presidential election. |
| 1:01.2 | You must qualify to the second round by having first pass the post, |
| 1:06.9 | and then a runoff between the French National Party, the FN, the Marine Le Pen, and Emmanuel Macron. |
| 1:17.2 | But Sophie takes us to an event at Amiens in April of 2017 when there's a strike. |
| 1:24.1 | And Macron makes a decision to go there with his staff to speak to the strikers, but |
| 1:30.0 | Marine Le Pen finds a way to upstage him. |
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