Pierre de Villiers was 61 years old when he began his career as a best-selling author. “Serve” was the title of his first work, published in November 2017. Exactly a year later, What a chief is followed by “?” Obvious title for one who was for 40 years a soldier, and at the peak of his career as a Top General in the French army, commanded. He has served, he was a chief.
more Surprising than de Villiers’ books your reception is. Within three months of his instructions to the Chief has sold more than 150’000 times. The book came exactly at the time on the market, as in France, hundreds of thousands of decided on, a yellow vest put on, and to go against President Emmanuel Macron on the road. Not just against his policies, against his Person. De Villiers stood on the third place of the French bestseller list, as a prominent representative of the yellow West wish at the beginning of last December, in a TV interview, the General out of service may take over the leadership of the state.
“I’m not going to go into politics”
De Villiers is behind a plexi glaspult in front of a crowded room in the chic centre of Paris. He presented the theses of his book in a swift Powerpoint presentation (“to Understand. Convince. . Control.”) and then says what he says on each of these evenings: “I’m not going to go into politics.” This is a serious rejection, a Flirt with the fact that he is very aware of how many wish it to be. Not only people, the samples as “gilets jaunes” the uprising, and at the same time of an “iron Hand” to dream. The Catholic, well-to-do bourgeoisie, the sitting together that evening under the chandelier, revered de Villiers. Finally, he is one of them.
On the day that the de Villiers’ ascent to the fictional favorite chef of many of the French began, it ended for the real boss a success. Emmanuel Macron was only two months in office, when he came with his then army chief together. In the election campaign, Macron had announced an increase in the defence budget, the army should save like all the others. De Villiers commented on the behind closed doors of coarse to vulgar, and the Macron is used, followed by the annual summer festival of the armed forces, to humiliate the Supreme General public. “I’m your boss,” said the 39-year-old New President of the veteran soldiers in front of the cameras. Five days later, de Villiers resigned. Shortly thereafter, Macrons popularity fell in the polls by ten percent.
No original texts
De Villiers’ answer to the question posed by him question, “What is a Chef?” is not only: I. It is not between the lines always: Macron. “Actually, my book should come out only in the spring,” says de Villiers, “but I felt that the resentment is growing.” The General as a Prophet, saw the yellow vests.
And in fact, could be the first pages of his book, just as in any analysis of the current situation in the country: “leaders of small businesses, Chairman of the Association, farmers, self-employed, civil servants, all have entrusted to me of how isolated and insecure you feel, how many of you Worry about in everyday life that they feel from all forms of authority.” De Villiers describes how he travels on a book tour for his first book, through France and in all things to the Desperate. This has to do with his view of the world, which is characterized by a longing for a good old time, attracts those in the know in the sinister descriptions of the present. But also so that the group of those who have the feeling that the state is neither interested in them, is so great that it brings you since mid-November, a social movement on the street, like France has, for decades, have not experienced.
The diagnoses and solutions, the de Villiers, are not original. But console. “You have to bring the people back to the centre,” he writes. Digitization and globalization are in de Villiers’ work reasons to get it with fear. And who is afraid, is in need of leadership: “A chief responsibility, to make it all better.”
No king, but maybe a second Charles de Gaulle
The formerly highest-ranking soldier is neither a democracy hostile to a megalomaniac, he is shaking never of the foundations of the Republic. However, in the admiration for de Villiers, the longing, reflects a good king. And if not king, then maybe a second Charles de Gaulle. One who is above all, and needs no party. Has proven as the General de Gaulle in the war, that he wants to fight for his country.
After his presentation, de Villiers sits behind a stack of Books and starts Signing. Narrow, dark suit, the hair accurately parted, every Smile. Question to that is: Why is de Villiers a good boss? “Because he likes the people. Macron is an Egoist, de Villiers is the opposite.”
the Belief in the policy is expired
The Hype around the General is for a Macron, for two reasons uncomfortable. Firstly, because it is a bad time to have a man to the enemy, who turns out to be a magnet for the public. On the other, because the two men are similar in many respects. Only de Villiers raises exactly the kind of enthusiasm that the President failed.
Macron constantly strives to provide in a continuity line with de Gaulle, starting with the statement to be neither to the left nor to the right. But while the people in de Villiers will see the return of the great Generals, see you in Macron, a young man who chooses unseemly large models. “My success is a sign of desperation,” says de Villiers. The people no longer read him because they believe in the policy.
(editing Tamedia)
Created: 25.02.2019, 22:33 PM
