Used – What If We Loved France - Bernard Maris

Author(s): Bernard Maris Publisher: Grasset & Fasquelle Collection: ESSAY Publication: 22/04/2015 Number of pages: 141 Number of books: 1 Weight: 170 g Dimensions: 20.5 x 13 x 1.3 EAN: 9782246852193 Summary:

"So you're writing a book about France?" "Yes." "Ah... And from what angle? Decline? Future? Universality? Messianism? Cuisine? Girls?" It's true, you need an angle... So, let's say I'm also asking myself questions about debts and credits. A way of drawing up a balance sheet, assets and liabilities, but above all of giving the word 'debt' its full meaning, that of fault, of guilt. A book to say: no, French people, you are not guilty, you owe nothing. Unemployment, urban catastrophe, the decline of the language, that's not you. Racism, that's not you, contrary to what they want you to believe. You are not guilty. Find again that smile that travelers envied for centuries, in the "country where God is happy". Returning from Rome, a city where I could definitively live, I feel full of optimism for France and think that a small thing could restore its smile to this Paris, so sad, so noisy and once so cheerful." B.M.

Biography:

Bernard Maris, writer, economist, columnist for France Inter and Charlie Hebdo. He authored numerous works, including L'homme dans la guerre (Grasset) and Houellebecq économiste (Flammarion). He sent us his text on January 2nd and was assassinated on January 7th, 2015 during the editorial meeting of Charlie Hebdo.