When Macron decorates Chevènement, this “battle republican”

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The president made Commander of the Legion of Honor the man who remains the embodiment of an intransigent Republic. “The Point” was there.

By Jerome Cordelier

On does not change the “Che”, our national Che! Decorated with the insignia of Commander of the Legion of Honor by Emmanuel Macron, this Wednesday, October 12, at the Élysée, Jean-Pierre Chevènement upset the protocol somewhat by asking to speak before the President of the Republic. Weakened, but with a straight chest, and without reading any notes, the former minister (Education, Defence, Interior), the living incarnation of a firm but humanist republican order, began by saying that this decoration “honored the long cohort of those who [l’]accompanied for fifty years”.

In a very chevènementist dispatch, this “battle republican”, as the president would later describe him, summarizes this life of commitments by specifying: “Their loyalty does not go to myself but to the ideas that we…

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