Charles de Courson, the deputy who could have cost the government 1 billion euros

Charles Amédée de Courson awaits the next “collapse”. He doesn’t know if he will come in a year, or two, or three, but he senses the inescapable thing like the rain of locusts. His father, Count Aymard, always told him that “old democracies take a long time to crumble”. The sin: “colossal” debt, soaring interest rates and badly managed policies for decades. Once the economic collapse has come, there will be “the reversal of public opinion in favor of the necessary reforms”, he announces messianically. Perhaps then, we will “listen” to his proposals.