INTERVIEW
"We all are. As soon as we have a little power, we are." Guest of the show Ça fait du bien, presented by Anne Roumanoff, Monday on Europe 1, Yann Moix launched into a logorrhea on arrogance, this defect that some often attribute to him. Originally asked about his hypermnesia (a living memory concerning his own life), Yann Moix told how, during a visit to the Gallica digital library, he came across the "real" story of taking the Bastille, "which did not happen exactly as we are taught at school," he said.
An arrogance "that says a lot about power today"
After explaining how the crowd arrived en masse after three delegations came, in vain, to ask the Marquis de Launay (then governor of the Bastille) to divert his guns from the Faubourg Saint-Antoine, Yann Moix points out "a problem of arrogance". An arrogance "that says a lot about power today", he adds, making a time leap of two hundred years and three decades. "I think the movement of 'yellow vests' is due to interpretation in a way that Emmanuel Macron to consider things, as arrogance". An interpretation reinforced, according to him, by a unilateral character of the speech. "You get arrogant when people feel like you can say something but can't answer you."
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"When you have a point of view on something and you have more power, then arrogance can arise in the minds of people," says Yann Moix. An observation that he says he made, on his own scale, after his three years as a columnist on the show On n'est pas couché . "I felt I had power, but I didn't realize it," he says. "And what I considered normal conversations were perceived as arrogant."