Emmanuel Macron’s anti-houellebecquian wishes

On does not know if Emmanuel Macron has already read Michel Houellebecq’s new novel, annihilate, which everyone is talking about even before its release on January 7. In any case, in the last wishes of this five-year term, the Head of State seemed to deny the novelist who depicts him as a president intoxicated with words. The president only let himself go to his natural propensity for a certain lyricism at one point, letting go: “From France, from the country, no one will know how to uproot my heart.” “

His shortest wishes

The rest of the speech was marked by sobriety, pragmatism and optimism, again in contrast to Houellebecquian prose. Of Emmanuel Macron’s five televised greeting ceremonies, this was the shortest, less than a quarter of an hour – the longest being the first, for …