Revolution Française : Emmanuel Macron and the Quest to Reinvent a Nation
x, 300pp, central section of colour photographic plates. Blue cloth-covered boards, silver titles on spine. Pages just starting to tan. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket has some shelf wear, price unclipped. 8vo. Examines the first year in office of France's youngest and most exciting president in modern times and asks how did a political outsider, philosophy graduate and Rothschild banker who married his school drama teacher manage to defy the unwritten rules of the Fifth Republic and secure the presidency at his first attempt? And what are the underlying ideas behind his vision?