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In boots Jacqueline Francois Mitterrand

Small Business François Bayrou does not know the crisis. Bordering eye, rosy cheeks, big bust, its founder observed, greedy mine, a political scene which he became, against all odds, one of the tenors. It is true it raises, again, as much interest as irritation. Out beyond the grave, Dominique de Villepin agreed with him "common values" . Out of his reserve, François Hollande just asked the question that angry, rue de Solferino: "He's a competitor. Can he become a partner?" Under the guise of clarification is to admit that he won his lace antisarkozyste shock.

Better still, it annoys, so worried. Yesterday accomplice, Daniel Cohn-Bendit fun, with the President of the modem, a presidential obsession bordering on revelation Marian. Yesterday determined to ignore it, the Elysee getting agitated, calling populist (Xavier Bertrand) of "Le Pen Light" (Nicolas Sarkozy by Alain Minc's voice), finally " liar (Claude Gueant).

It is true that arises is advantageous: for the good people of David will always be right against Goliath and rebel against the government. Success of esteem? Maybe. But who has a precedent, which Bayrou aware, of course, no detail: that of Francois Mitterrand. In 1964, he had launched his coup permanent virulent pamphlet anti-Gaullist. Bayrou is preparing to do the same this week with his Abuse of power, firebrand cons a president who "led the France a model from which it does not" . In 1965, for impotence and division of the left - already - Mitterrand had won, alone against all, as the candidate able to shake the "General" in the presidential election. Bayrou has failed to succeed the same feat in 2007, but he dreamed of being able to say, tomorrow "The opposition is me!" facing "The state is me" sarkozyen. Most welcome again, and the member of the Pyrenees-Atlantiques recalled in 2007: after the failure of the left in 1969, Mitterrand had achieved a spectacular bid for the Socialist Party in Epinay, on behalf of the break with capitalism. Why Bayrou, also from the right and passed through the center, does not he fantasized scenario too fantastic? He already has the accent, when he plans to "impose his humanistic project in spite of capitalism, and if necessary against him" or castigates "the frivolity of money spread" Echoing to the "money corrupts" Mitterrand.

mimicry does not stop there. A conversation with the trees, talking with the other horses. The first was a "Prince of ambiguity" , the second is no exception. Like his predecessor, he asks the peasant, plays his provincial roots - the Bearn buttonhole - prides himself on literature distributed with the aphorisms compunction an oracle, displays the same taste of romance and made the presidential " the fight of his life. " short, Bayrou has donned the boots Mitterrand. It remains to prove that he was not wrong size.

Gérard Courtois, The World , April 21, 2009