Jean-Louis Debré: and now writing! – Le Figaro

The former president of the Constitutional Council, which leaves his seat to Laurent Fabius, preparing the release of the last part of his Diary before or after the summer. It has also been named president of the Superior Council of Archives.

Jean-Louis Debré leaves the Constitutional Council. But not the Republic of Letters. He is already preparing for several months first book based on her diary. The title has already been announced: “What I could not tell.” A reference in particular to its rough exchanges with Nicolas Sarkozy, at the time when he was president. “It’s been thirty years since I write every day, sometimes there are two lines, sometimes two pages,” he says. “Initially, I used it as a working tool, to remember appointments that I had, of what had said. We see so many people in politics that we need a reminder. ” He wrote thousands of pages, but for now, he focuses on the publication of his newspaper nine years as President of the Constitutional Council. “I have a thousand pages to pick up three percent, and it’s not easy!” He admits.

“I have a thousand pages to pick up three percent, and it’s not easy!”

71 years Debré should continue to publish. Her latest bestseller is I type sleeve (Calmann-Levy), written together with a homeless man in his sumptuous office of the Royal Palace. A triumph: over 30,000 copies sold in eleven weeks (EDISTAT). “I had sent home Grasset, a Parisian publisher who storefront, and he sent me the text explaining that it does interested person. He must regret. So, I proposed to a small publishing house, who agreed immediately, “says Debré, delighted with this unexpected success.

If it has touched any copyright for this latest collection, the money now relate his works did switch to another world: he now pays tax solidarity on capital. Fifteen books, crime novels that are reissued in paperback, historical murals. These women who have awakened France (Fayard), written with Valérie Bochenek, his companion, will be translated and sold in Beijing, where authors are invited in the spring. One of his detective stories, hate Games (Fayard), sort Tbilisi.

This Saturday, he was also appointed Chairman of the Supreme Council of Archives. He succeeds historian Georgette Elgey at the head of this institution in particular to advise the Minister of Culture of the political “in terms of public and private archives” or “issues related to the development of new technologies in services archive “.

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