In 1972, Jean-Pierre Chevènement, who directs Ceres (Centre for Studies, Research and Socialist Education), left wing of the Socialist Party, drew up the party program led by François Mitterrand. The future minister, who would chain portfolios between 1981 and 2000 (he resigned twice), had published in 1967, with Didier Motchane and Alain Gomez, under the collective pseudonym of Jacques Mandrin, “Enarchy or the mandarins of society bourgeoise”, an essay against the school from which the three men come.
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In the article that we republish below, Jean-Pierre Chevènement (then 33 years old) praises the fourth book by Jean-Edern Hallier (1936-1997), “the Cause of the peoples”. “Spiritual and political autobiography”, “in the vein of Drieu la Rochelle, who also, from 1920, had taken “the measure of France” », Jean-Edern Hallier’s book is here adorned with all the virtues. The writer would later become famous with a pamphlet in 1979 against President Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, then with his vindictiveness against his successor François Mitterrand (threatening to reveal the existence of his daughter then in hiding, in a book he will not reach publ
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