CHAPTER 1 THE PARABLE OF AMIENS
1Emmanuel Macron, Révolution (Paris: XO Editions, 2016).
2J. Bellemère, Amiens (Amiens: Roger Léveillard, 1928).
3Anne Fulda, Emmanuel Macron: un jeune homme si parfait (Paris: Editions Plon, 2017), p. 29.
4Interview with the author, 5 July 2017.
5Fulda, Emmanuel Macron, p. 16.
6Ibid.
7Manon Haussy and Claire Raynaud, ‘À Bagnères, Emmanuel Macron on l’appelle “Manu”’, La Dépêche, 14 May 2017.
8Interview with the author, 7 June 2017.
9Interview with the author, 20 June 2017.
10Fulda, Emmanuel Macron, p. 28.
11Ibid., p. 186.
12Caroline Pigozzi, ‘Le père Philippe Robert, professeur à la Providence, se souvient de son élève Emmanuel Macron’, Paris Match, 13 May 2017.
13Caroline Pigozzi, ‘Brigitte et Emmanuel Macron prêts pour tous les défis’, Paris Match, 13 April 2016.
14Erin Doherty and Olivia de Lamberterie, ‘Appelez-moi Brigitte!’, ELLE, 18 August 2017.
15Ibid.
16Vanessa Schneider, ‘Au lycée Henri-IV, les infortunes du jeune Macron’, Le Monde, 3 March 2018.
17Interview with the author, 7 March 2017.
18Interview with the author, 19 June 2017.
19Fulda, Emmanuel Macron, pp. 62–3.
20Gaspard Gantzer, La politique est un sport de combat (Paris: Fayard, 2017), p. 151.
21Doherty and De Lamberterie, ‘Appelez-moi Brigitte!’, 13 April 2016.
22Caroline Derrien and Candice Nedelec, Les Macron (Paris: Fayard, 2017), p. 60.
23Adam Plowright, The French Exception (London: Icon Books, 2017), p. 66.
24Interview with the author, 26 June 2017.
25Gantzer, La politique est un sport de combat, p. 62.
26Interview with the author, 21 November 2017.
27Gantzer, La politique est un sport de combat, pp. 22 and 151.
28Interview with the author, 5 May 2017.
29Interview with the author, 28 June 2017.
30‘Emmanuel Macron, 32 ans, gérant à la banque Rothschild’, Sciences Po no. 158, April 2010.
31Pierre Hurel, ‘Emmanuel Macron, la stratégie du météore’, France 3, 21 November 2016.
32Stacey Meichtry and William Horobin, ‘France’s Hollande casts fate with ex-banker Macron’, Wall Street Journal, 8 March 2015.
33Anne-Sylvaine Chassany and Arash Massoudi, ‘Emmanuel Macron’s Rothschild years make him an easy election target’, Financial Times, 28 March 2017.
34Marc Endeweld, L’ambigu Monsieur Macron (Paris: Flammarion, 2015), pp. 131–7.
35Yann L’Hénoret, ‘Les coulisses d’une victoire’, TF1, 8 May 2017.
CHAPTER 2 LE DISRUPTEUR
1Jean-Dominique Merchet, Macron Bonaparte (Paris: Stock, 2017).
2Gaspard Gantzer, La politique est un sport de combat (Paris: Fayard, 2017), p. 73.
3Interview with the author, 9 June 2014.
4Gantzer, La politique est un sport de combat, p. 277.
5Gérard Davet and Fabrice Lhomme, Un président ne devrait pas dire ça (Paris: Stock, 2016).
6Yann L’Hénoret, ‘Les coulisses d’une victoire’, TF1, 8 May 2017.
7Meeting with Europresse press club, Paris, 3 May 2011.
8Interview with the author, 19 June 2017.
9Interview with the author, 26 June 2017.
10Interview with the author, 12 November 2013.
11Anne Fulda, Emmanuel Macron: un jeune homme si parfait (Paris: Editions Plon, 2017), p. 187.
12Interview with the author, 10 October 2017.
13Interview with the author, 9 June 2014.
14Interview with the author, 21 November 2017.
15Gantzer, La politique est un sport de combat, p. 263.
16Ibid., p. 264.
17Ibid., p. 265.
18Davet and Lhomme, Un président ne devrait pas dire ça, pp. 358 and 366.
19Ibid., p. 208.
20Ibid.
21Ibid., p. 465.
22David Revault d’Allonnes, ‘Hollande: “Emmanuel Macron m’a trahi avec méthode”,’ Le Monde, 31 August 2016.
23Martine Aubry, ‘Ne réduisons pas l’existence à la consommation’, Le Monde, 10 December 2014.
24Nicolas Prissette, Emmanuel Macron, le président inattendu (Paris: First Document, 2017), p. 116.
25Interview with the author, 13 November 2017.
26Interview with the author, 29 January 2016.
27Interview with the author, 22 June 2015.
28Interview with the author, 21 July 2017.
29Interview with the author, 8 July 2016.
30Interview with the author, 5 July 2017.
31René Rémond, Jean Lecanuet ou la passion du centre (Paris: Beauchesne, 2006), p. 20.
32Interview with the author, 29 November 2013.
33Interview with the author, 8 July 2016.
34Interview with the author, 26 June 2017.
CHAPTER 3 THE ROOTS OF DÉGAGISME, 1995–2017
1Liz Alderman, ‘Uber’s French Resistance’, The New York Times, 3 June 2015.
2‘Change it – Israel: a model for French tech?’, interview with L’Atelier, BNP Paribas, 26 November 2015.
3François-Xavier Bourmaud, Emmanuel Macron: Les coulisses d’une victoire (Paris: L’Archipel, 2017), p. 200.
4Interview on ‘La marche du siècle’, Antenne 2, 15 November 1995.
5Interview with TF1, 12 December 1996.
6Franz-Olivier Giesbert, La tragédie du président: scènes de la vie politique 1986–2006 (Paris: Flammarion, 2006), p. 362.
7‘Référendum: en direct avec le président’, TF1, 14 April 2005.
8Nicolas Baverez, La France qui tombe (Paris: Perrin, 2003), p. 19.
9Catherine Nay, Un pouvoir nommé désir (Paris: Grasset, 2007), p. 41.
10Alain Duhamel, ‘L’argent-diable’, Le Point, 1 July 2010.
11Yasmina Reza, L’aube le soir ou la nuit (Paris: Flammarion, 2007), p. 18.
12Matthieu Croissandeau, Renaud Dély et Sophie Fay, ‘Il faut en finir avec la gauche passéiste’, L’Obs, 23 October 2014.
13Emmanuel Macron, Révolution (Paris: XO Editions, 2016), p. 41.
14Interview with the author, 6 June 2017.
15Emmanuel Macron, ‘Les labyrinths du politique: que peut-on attendre pour 2012 et après?’, Esprit, March–April 2011.
16Interview with the author, 29 September 2014.
17Interview with the author, 9 June 2014.
18Macron, Révolution, p. 59.
19Interview with the author, 12 September 2013.
20Interview in L’Express, 24 November 2011.
21Interview with the author, 14 November 2017.
CHAPTER 4 EN MARCHE TO THE ELYSÉE
1Interview with the author, 13 November 2017.
2Interview with the author, 7 September 2017.
3Interview with the author, 15 September 2015.
4Interview with the author, 15 January 2018.
5Interview with the author, 12 December 2017.
6Interview with the author, 5 July 2017.
7Interview with the author, 6 June 2017.
8Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Vol de nuit (Paris: Gallimard, 1972), p. 159.
9Interview with the author, 12 October 2017.
10Interview with the author, 11 April 2017.
11Interview with the author, 12 October 2017.
12Interview with the author, 5 July 2017.
13Interview with the author, 19 June 2017.
14Interview with the author, 8 July 2016.
15Interview with the author, 9 April 2017.
16Interview with the author, 7 November 2017.
CHAPTER 5 JUPITER RISING
1Yann L’Hénoret, ‘Les coulisses d’une victoire’, TF1, 8 May 2017.
2Interview with the author, 6 June 2017.
3Interview with the author, 9 July 2017.
4Interview with the author, 14 November 2017.
5Interview with the author, 21 December 2017.
6Emmanuel Carrère, ‘Orbiting Jupiter: My Week with Emmanuel Macron’, The Guardian, 20 October 2017.
7Emmanuel Macron, speech in Paris, 17 April 2017.
8Emmanuel Macron, speech in Reims, 17 March 2017.
9Emmanuel Macron, speech in Dijon, 25 March 2017.
10Emmanuel Macron, speech in Besançon, 11 April 2017.
11‘Premier tour présidentielle 2017: sociologie de l’electorat’, Ipsos, 23 April 2017.
12Interview with the author, 30 May 2017.
13Nicolas Baverez, La France qui tombe (Paris: Perrin, 2003).
14Franz-Olivier Giesbert, ‘Le marinisation des esprits’, Le Point, 21 September 2013.
15Jean-Marie Rouart, Adieu à la France qui s’en va (Paris: Grasset, 2003).
16Sudhir Hazareesingh, How the French Think (London: Allen Lane, 2015), p. 313.
17Interview with the author, 1 June 2017.
18L’Hénoret, ‘Les coulisses d’une victoire’, 8 May 2017.
19Interview with Der Spiegel, 13 October 2017.
20Philippe Besson, Un personnage de roman (Paris: Julliard, 2017).
21Interview with the author, 14 November 2017.
22‘Macron, un philosophe en politique’ Le 1, 8 July 2015.
23Interview with Challenges, 16 October 2016.
24Max Weber, The Theory of Social and Economic Organization, edited by Talcott Parsons (Chicago, IL: The Free Press, 1947), p. 358.
25‘Macron, confidences sacrées’, Journal du Dimanche, 11 February 2017.
26Soazig Quéméner and Alexandre Duyck, L’irrésistible ascension (Paris: Flammarion, 2017), p. 97.
27Interview with the author, 20 June 2017.
28Carrère, ‘Orbiting Jupiter’, 20 October 2017.
29‘En Marche vers l’Elysée’, Envoyé Spécial, France 2, 11 May 2017.
30Anne Fulda, ‘Brigitte Macron, l’anti-potiche’, Le Figaro, 25 September 2017.
31Charlotte Chaffanjon, ‘Emmanuel Macron: la fabrique d’un chef’, Le Point, 10 May 2017.
CHAPTER 6 MACRONISM
1Pierre-André Taguieff, Macron, miracle ou mirage? (Paris: L’Edition de l’Observatoire, 2017), p. 182.
2Emmanuel Macron, ‘Pourquoi nous sommes un peuple’, Le Figaro, 16 March 2017.
3Interview with the author, 4 May 2017.
4Interview with the author, 26 June 2017.
5Bernard Dauenhauer, Paul Ricoeur: The Promise and Risks of Politics (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 1998), pp. 3–4.
6François Dosse, Le philosophe et le président: Ricœur & Macron (Paris: Stock, 2017), pp. 187–95.
7Marc Endeweld, L’ambigu Monsieur Macron (Paris: Flammarion, 2015), p. 71.
8‘Macron, un philosophe en politique’ Le 1, 8 July 2015.
9Dosse, Le philosophe et le président.
10‘Macron, un philosophe en politique’, 8 July 2015.
11Nicolas Truong, ‘Petite philosophie du macronisme’, Le Monde, 15 May 2017.
12‘Macron, un philosophe en politique’, 8 July 2015.
13Emmanuel Macron, Révolution (Paris: XO Editions, 2016), pp. 20–1.
14‘Emmanuel Macron, 32 ans, gérant à la banque Rothschild’, Sciences Po no. 158, April 2010.
15Emmanuel Macron, ‘Les labyrinths du politique: que peut-on attendre pour 2012 et après?’, Esprit, March–April 2011.
16Truong, ‘Petite philosophie du macronisme’, 15 May 2017.
17Interview with Der Spiegel, 13 October 2017.
18Macron, Révolution, p. 38.
19Mathieu Laine and Jean-Philippe Feldman, Transformer la France. En finir avec mille ans de mal français (Paris: Plon, 2018).
20Interview with the author, 28 June 2017.
21Laurent Bigorgne, Alice Baudry and Olivier Duhamel, Macron, et en même temps (Paris: Plon, 2017) pp. 250–1.
22Amartya Sen, Development as Freedom (New York: Knopf, 1999).
23Interview with the author, 18 January 2018.
24Ibid.
25Lénaïg Bredoux and Joseph Confavreux, ‘L’impossible definition du hollandisme’, Mediapart, 28 October 2013.
26Speech by President Emmanuel Macron, joint sitting of Congress, Versailles, 3 July 2017.
27Interview with Der Spiegel, 13 October 2017.
28Interview with the author, 12 December 2017.
29Interview with the author, 21 July 2017.
30Interview with the author, 18 January 2018.
31Ibid.
32Anthony Giddens, The Third Way: The Renewal of Social Democracy (London: Polity Press, 1998).
33Interview with the author, 21 December 2017.
34Emmanuel Macron, speech in Paris, 17 April 2017.
35Zanny Minton Beddoes, ‘The pendulum swings’, The World in 2018, The Economist, 2017, p. 16.
36‘Mesure du Discours’, Observatoire du discours politique français, Université Côte d’Azur http://mesure-du-discours.unice.fr/
37Interview with Der Spiegel, 13 October 2017.
38Julien Vallet, ‘La culture selon Emmanuel Macron’, Classiquenews, 4 April 2017.
39Interview with Der Spiegel, 13 October 2017.
40Ibid.
41Brice Couturier, Macron, un président philosophe (Paris: Editions de l’Observatoire, 2017), p. 46.
42Philippe Besson, Un personnage de roman (Paris: Julliard, 2017), p. 79.
43Interview with the author, 14 November 2017.
44Interview with Der Spiegel, 13 October 2017.
45Macron, ‘Les labyrinths du politique’.
46Bigorgne et al., Macron, et en même temps, p. 251.
47Interview with Der Spiegel, 13 October 2017.
48Interview in Le 1, 8 July 2015.
49Interview with Challenges, 16 October 2016.
50Interview with Der Spiegel, 13 October 2017.
51Interview with Le Point, 31 August 2017.
52Interview with Der Spiegel, 13 October 2017.
53Macron, Révolution, p. 34.
54Interview with the author, 11 June 2017.
55Interview with the author, 6 June 2017.
56Interview with Der Spiegel, 13 October 2017.
57Ibid.
58Nicholas Vinocur, ‘Emmanuel Macron’s arrogance problem’, Politico, 20 September 2017.
59Interview with the author, 7 March 2017.
60Interview with the author, 21 July 2017.
CHAPTER 7 RE-START NATION
1Interview with the author, 27 June 2017.
2Luis Garicano, Claire LeLarge and John Van Reenen, ‘Firm size distortions and the productivity distribution: evidence from France’, American Economic Review 106:11, 2016, pp. 3439–79.
3Interview with the author, 19 March 2007.
4Interview with the author, 12 April 2012.
5‘Goodyear: la lettre de Titan à Montebourg’, Les Echos, 19 February 2013.
6Interview with the author, 6 November 2015.
7Mathieu Laine and Jean-Philippe Feldman, Transformer la France: en finir avec mille ans de mal français (Paris: Plon, 2018).
8René Rémond, ‘La société française et l’autorité’, Ville-Ecole-Intégration 112, March 1998.
9Alain Peyrefitte, Le mal français (Paris: Plon. 1976).
10Michel Pébereau, Rompre avec la facilité de la dette publique (Paris: La documentation française, 2005), p. 183.
11OECD, ‘Economic survey of France’, OECD, 14 September 2017.
12Emmanuel Macron, Révolution (Paris: XO Editions, 2016), p. 48.
13Interview with the author, 24 September 2015.
14Madhumita Murgia and Harriet Agnew, ‘Facebook to base first business incubator in France’s Station F’, Financial Times, 17 January 2017.
15Chris O’Brien, ‘Post-Nest life in Paris, investing in deep tech, and his global search for inspiration’, VentureBeat, 29 December 2017.
16Interview with the author, 6 June 2017.
17Press conference, Salzburg, Austria, 23 August 2017.
18Interview with TF1, 15 October 2017.
19Interview with the author, 21 July 2017.
20Interview with the author, 19 June 2017.
CHAPTER 8 FRACTURED FRANCE
1Interview with the author, 1 June 2017.
2Interview with the author, 1 June 2017.
3John Judis and Ruy Teixeira, The Emerging Democratic Majority (New York: Scribner, 2002), p. 8.
4Interview with Le Point, 11 December 2015.
5Interview with the author, 16 February 2012.
6Caroline Fourest and Fiammetta Venner, Marine Le Pen (Paris: Grasset, 2011), p. 129.
7Sylvain Crépon, Enquête au coeur du nouveau Front National (Paris: Nouveau Monde, 2012), p. 126.
8Ibid., p. 155.
9Ibid., p. 100.
10Ibid.
11Interview with the author, 8 December 2015.
12Interview with the author, 8 December 2015.
13Interview with the author, 17 July 2017.
14Augustin Landier, Daniel Szomoru and David Thesmar, ‘Working in the on-demand economy: an analysis of Uber driver-partners in France’, working paper, 4 March 2016.
15Interview with the author, 20 June 2017.
16David Thomson, Les revenants: ils étaient partis faire le jihad, ils sont de retour en France (Paris: Le Seuil, 2016).
17Interview with the author, 16 February 2016.
CHAPTER 9 THE TYRANNY OF NORMAL
1Interview with the author, 8 June 2017.
2Interview with the author, 8 June 2017.
3Interview with the author, 7 July 2017.
4Pierre Mathiot, ‘Un nouveau baccalauréat pour construire le lycée des possibles’, Ministère de l’Education Nationale, 24 January 2018.
5Jean-Michel Blanquer, L’école de demain (Paris: Odile Jacob, 2016).
6Jean-Michel Blanquer, Ministry of Education, press release, 27 June 2017.
7Interview with the author, 22 June 2017.
8Interview with the author, 30 June 2017.
9Cour des Comptes, ‘L’autonomie financière des universités: une réforme à poursuivre’, Cour des Comptes, 30 September 2015.
CHAPTER 10 A CERTAIN IDEA OF EUROPE, AND BEYOND
1Michaela Wiegel, Emmanuel Macron: Ein Visionär für Europa, eine Herausforderung für Deutschland (Berlin: Europa-Verlag, 2018).
2Interview with the author, 21 July 2017.
3Ibid.
4Ibid.
5Interview with The Guardian, 21 June 2017.
6Interview with the author, 21 July 2017.
7Jeffrey Goldberg, ‘The Obama Doctrine: The U.S. president talks through his hardest decisions about America’s role in the world’, The Atlantic, April 2016.
8Interview with the author, 9 July 2017.
9Interview with the author, 18 January 2018.
10Ibid.