Simple like the others successful through hard work and effort

For the Elysee, the case is heard: the controversy by remarks distorted Nicolas Sarkozy on a number of Western leaders and reported (Zapatero and Obama including) is "journalistic manipulation." A further step in the already heavy dispute between French President to the press, with "Liberation" at the top of list.

But it is clear that, even before the competition from the Internet, even in more and more shedding non-written of the "off" rule, the press could little if it had a head of State is the "real talk" and the breakdown of the verbal codes his political ascent engine in front of it. The nine of the wonder of the caustic: y a-t-il more attractive for a journalist However it is well that Nicolas Sarkozy has promised and delivered, by choosing, in 2001, to engage in his conquest of power with a book to title-manifesto, "free".

"Free speech", it is the result of a critical analysis of the breakdown between the policy and the French and looking without complacency on Jacques Chirac, which embodies the power at this time there first home. Convinced of a cut no return between a France "that supports more codes, caution, convoluted descriptions" (1) and a locked in a castle, "mummified", President Nicolas Sarkozy decided to be the opposite. Simple, "like the others", successful through hard work and effort. The "small French of mixed blood" of his speech of investiture to the Pikes repeatedly against the "bac 24", Nicolas Sarkozy is never disposed of this belief that the link with the people is the result of a mixture of proximity, of simplicity and sincerity. "It is in the dread to be formatted, sterilized," said Franck Louvrier, his communications adviser.

And, in fact, the break is striking. A rare and weighing speech succeeded an uninterrupted and direct flow "should call a spade a spade", insists Nicolas Sarkozy. No teleprompter, and Whispers in his speeches "I am not prisoner of my staff" , dialogues poles broken with its visitors, the anger and the good words in public.: for the "talk true", the head of State allows all verbal Audacity: in France "I banana", launched a few days ago in UMP electedas international "Obama, this is my boyfriend", he retained his meeting last summer with the future President of the United States. But these words out framework are also those that paid more expensive since two years. "The State coffers are already empty" (the press conference of January 8, 2008), "my" collaborator"François Fillon" (secrets to journalists), "evaluation of researchers is a pretty cool system since that which is is at the same time that's worth" (digression in a speech January 22), not to mention the taunts against Angela Merkel and Gordon Brown and the "break you".", poor con" to one who refused to shake his hand at the Salon of agriculture: each time, these comments were out of speech or uttered in small Committee, "free", and each time they have sparked outcry and even political, social or diplomatic difficulties.

Is it to say that the tone for the conquest of power is more difficult for a head of State Nicolas Sarkozy refuses to consider it, although it has long been abandoned to hold press conferences and his movements in the provinces are very supervised. On the other hand, the art of the joke is Mania without doubt more difficult in times of crisis that in normal times. "The social link having been weakened by the crisis, the floor can no longer be also free", observed the sociologist Denis Muzet (2): "It is constrained by the context, which loads the words of a meaning that can turn the intention of origin." Today the words are there to comfort the victims of the crisis, but they can become hurtful. Do not forget that they are not used only to refer to things, but they put the mediation. "Nicolas Sarkozy should the crisis time undermine this temperament of"child of Canal ", as has long defined himself In any case invited Tuesday his political opponents in more of sobriety, blaming them for "lost time" with "ridiculous polemics."