THE PHILOSOPHICAL PRESIDENT: 1/4: RévolutionFrançaise, by Sophie Pedder. @PedderSophie
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🗓️ 30 March 2024
⏱️ 11 minutes
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https://www.amazon.com/Revolution-Française-Emmanuel-Macron-reinvent/dp/1472948602
The extraordinary story of how an outsider candidate—an unknown technocrat and economics minister on the fringes of French politics—made his way to the Élysée palace, with expert analysis of his first year in office.
Two years after Emmanuel Macron came from nowhere to seize the French presidency, Sophie Pedder, The Economist's Paris bureau chief, tells the story of his remarkable rise and time in office so far. In this paperback edition, published with a new foreword by the author, Pedder reflects on Macron's troubles and triumphs: his dwindling popularity: the 'gilets jaunes' protests and resulting civil unrest: his efforts to transform France and lead the global fight against climate change: the Benalla affair; his erratic relationships with Angela Merkel, Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin and Theresa May, and the future of the European project.
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| 0:00.0 | This is a |
| 0:04.4 | This is CBS Eye on the World. Here's John Bachelor |
| 0:10.2 | It's a pleasure to welcome Sophie Petter, the Paris Bureau Chief for The Economist magazine, and Sophie Petter, the author. |
| 0:18.0 | Sophie published some years passed in the first term, may be the only term, of Emmanuel Macron. |
| 0:25.0 | Revolution Francais. |
| 0:28.0 | This is the story of the subtitle, The Quest for Re-To Rein reinvent a nation, France. |
| 0:34.0 | Sophie, wonderful, congratulations, |
| 0:37.0 | and we're looking to an re-election or a defeat in the spring of 22. |
| 0:43.0 | Recently there were regional elections, you and I spoke about what they pointed to. |
| 0:48.0 | Macron, President Macron is very much in the mix. |
| 0:51.0 | I understand things have happened since his election, but to discover |
| 0:55.0 | the man, I want to go to moments in your telling. You published this book in 2018, so these |
| 1:01.6 | events are fresh to his presidency. The first is the night of |
| 1:06.7 | the election, May 2017. You illustrate who McCrone is by saying that he prepared for this moment and he was at the |
| 1:16.7 | Louvre coming down the steps to address the nation. Significantly, he came down the steps outside now. We're looking at the new Louve and the old Louve, |
| 1:27.9 | old France and new France, without looking down to see where his feet fell, which I've tried, it's impossible to do. |
| 1:35.9 | And you emphasize throughout the book that there is much of the actor, the performer in |
| 1:40.9 | McCrone. |
| 1:42.0 | What does that moment tell us now and what did it tell the |
| 1:44.9 | French people at the time? Good evening, Sophie. Good evening, John and thank you for inviting |
| 1:50.4 | me on your show. It's really a pleasure to be with you. I think looking back, you know, that |
| 1:55.2 | evening nobody was knew, nobody knew what to expect. You know, he'd just been elected. He, this was his sort of moment to greet his supporters and there was a sort of |
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