This Thursday, May 11, Bruno Le Maire plays the spectators. Seated to the right of the Head of State, in the Elysée village hall where bosses, lobbyists and elected officials are gathered, the Minister of the Economy listens, pursed lips and staring into space, his Minister Delegate for the industry, Roland Lescure, presenting the “green industry” plan. This moment had to be his. But the powerful boss of Bercy, who dreamed of a “Le Maire law”, as there was a “Macron law” on the economy in 2015, does not take the floor to detail the project on which he has been working for months. . The Elysée has decided so. “Go ahead, you’ll know how to do better than me!” »bows Bruno Le Maire, grand prince, encouraging his colleague from Bercy.
For the past few weeks, one of the most popular members of the government has nonetheless been talking about him. The publication of american fugue in the white collection of Gallimard (23.50 euros), a story centered on the pianist Vladimir Horowitz (1903-1989), shines the light on the function of writer that he occupies at night. On April 27, an erotic extract, taken from his 480-page novel, circulates in the spheres of power. At Matignon, we laugh at the page 74, scene of lovemaking between the hero, Oskar, and his friend Julia: “Are you coming Oskar? I’m dilated like never before. »
Elisabeth Borne explodes: “He’d better work instead of writing c-books!” » His advisers have fun slipping in, during austere meetings, the expression to include it in the “blue”the official records. “This agenda is dilated as ever”, pretends to sigh a close friend of the Prime Minister, at the time of concluding one of these formal meetings. At the Elysée, the scabrous lines trigger the biting irony of the secretary general, Alexis Kohler, who strums mocking SMS during a meeting of ministers. Emmanuel Macron is impatient: ” Now that’s enough ! »
“A world that dirties everything”
The day after this literary outing which dissipated the troops, finished laughing: the Fitch agency downgraded the sovereign rating of France. Bruno Le Maire sends Agence France-Presse a detailed statement, while the sample of american fugue is buzzing on social media. Can a practicing statesman write about Julia: “She showed me the brown bulge of her anus” ? Opponents on the left, such as the “rebellious” deputy for Seine-Saint-Denis Thomas Portes, seized on the work to castigate the ” contempt “ government acting at its pleasure, when “millions of people can no longer eat, fill their fridge, pay their rent”. In the Senate, the elected Les Républicains (LR) of Oise Jérôme Bascher says he wants to avoid, on May 3, “May our debt be ‘expanded like never before'”. On May 10, a handful of demonstrators picked up Bruno Le Maire in Levallois, at the foot of L’Oréal’s headquarters, while singing “Dilated as never before”. In the entourage of the minister, we are sorry to“a world that dirties everything”.
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