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EXTRACTS. The General’s blindness, Giscard and diamonds… The journalist does not miss the presidents, whom he crunches, sometimes with cruelty, in his Memoirs.
By Jerome Cordelier
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Dn his Memoirs (Editions Bouquin, to be published on October 27), written in collaboration with Martin Veber, Jean-Pierre Elkabbach reveals unknown aspects of the presidents he had to meet. Those concerned are sometimes crunched with cruelty. The journalist thus devotes a long portrait to General de Gaulle, the first powerful that the reporter from Oran had to approach, without masking his admiration, while highlighting certain unknown traits, such as his blindness. As for Giscard, he does not come out unscathed from the questions of the interviewer on the affair which poisoned his seven-year term, that of the “Bokassa diamonds”.
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De Gaulle and the sheep
“The concern to conceal his poor eyesight gave rise to comical situations. One day, we stop in Dijon where de Gaulle, always e…
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