2023-12-02 06:30:13
Former Prime Minister Edouard Philippe, at a signing session for his latest book, “Des places qui dit”, at the 105th congress of the Association of Mayors of France, in Paris, November 21, 2023. SERGE TENANI/HANS LUCAS
The crowd is expected on Saturday December 2, in Courbevoie, at the “24 Heures des mots” festival. But is it to have Edouard Philippe’s latest work signed, Places that say (JC Lattès, 320 pages, 21.90 euros), which onlookers flock to, or to meet the author of the best-seller The yellow eyes of crocodiles, Katherine Pancol, is also present in the town of Hauts-de-Seine? Mystery. Since September 13, Emmanuel Macron’s former prime minister has been traveling across France to sign his political book and test his popularity.
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More than three years after his departure from the government, the polls remain flattering for the mayor of Le Havre, whose candidacy for the 2027 presidential election, still unacknowledged, is obvious to his troops. But his book did not have the success ofClear prints and lines (JC Lattès, 2021), which tells the behind-the-scenes story of his time at Matignon. At the congress of mayors, on November 21, his teams are worried: “We should bring in mayors so that he is not alone”.
A week earlier, the dedication planned at the Galignani bookstore, rue de Rivoli in Paris, had been canceled, officially for scheduling reasons. But in the French literature department of the establishment, we confide that the work does not sell ” not that much “. “There is concern and fed up with politics”we add in Galignani, where we observe that ” even ” Nicolas Sarkozy’s book, The Time of Fighting (Fayard, 592 pages, 28 euros), does not tear off like the previous ones.
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“It’s a more difficult book”concedes Charles Hufnagel, former communications advisor to Edouard Philippe, who describes an atmosphere of” autumn “. But it doesn’t matter, according to this faithful Norman: “Edouard Philippe is not particularly looking to send postcards. He’s a little somewhere else”.
Agenda unfolded under the media radar
Tickled in the polls by Gabriel Attal, Minister of Education, darling of the media and whose name is now cited to claim the presidential competition, Edouard Philippe pretends to applaud the success of the Minister of the Economy, Bruno Le Maire, described as “the most gifted among us”. Challenged by his « ami » Gérald Darmanin, who questions himself in The Parisian October 7 on the” envy “ and the ” project ” of Edouard Philippe for 2027, the person concerned unfolds his agenda under the media radars, sketching out in small touches a thought which is intended to be more right-wing than that of Macronie.
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