Le pouvoir, son père, le 13-Novembre… François Hollande se livre à Vincent Trémolet de Villers

Empreintes Le Figaro 2027

Empreintes Le Figaro 2027

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“I’m going to be elected tonight. You’ll find out at 8 p.m., but I’m warning you,” François Hollande confided to his father a few minutes before the official announcement of his victory in the 2012 presidential election. “I feel sorry for you, though!” his father immediately chimed in. “He was quite right about that,” the former president remarked with amusement. “For him, taking action wasn’t futile, but painful.” Interviewed by Vincent Trémolet de Villers for the radio program “Empreintes,” the former head of state reflects on the driving forces behind his political ambition and what shaped him as a person.