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Le president / roman

By Georges Simenon

Le president / roman

By Georges Simenon

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Restored to print for the first time in more than forty years, The President was hailed by the New York Times as a “tour de force”At 82, the former premier lives in alert and suspicious retirement—self exile—on the Normandy coast, writing his anxiously anticipated memoirs and receiving visits from statesman and biographers. In his library is the self-condemning, handwritten confession of the premier’s former attaché, Chalamont, hidden between the pages of a sumptuously produced work of privately printed pornography—a confession that the premier himself had dictated and forced Chalamont to sign. Now the long-thwarted Chalamont has been summoned to form a new coalition in the wake of the government’s collapse. The premier alone possesses the secret of Chalamont’s guilt, of his true character—and has publicly “He’ll never be Premier as long as I’m alive... Nor when I’m dead, either.” Inspired by French Premier Georges Clemenceau, The President is a masterpiece of psychological suspense and a probing account of the decline of power.
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Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
183
Publication Date:
1978
Publisher:
Presses de la Cité
Languages:
Published: Unknown, Original: French
ISBN10:
2258004101
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