The second episode of the documentary "Small sentences, great consequences", broadcast Monday evening on LCP, returns in particular to certain formulas, pronounced in public or in private, which earned Emmanuel Macron and François Hollande to be accused of class contempt. 

If they are often the salt of interviews and TV debates, they can also tend to parasitize public discussion.

LCP broadcasts Monday evening, from 8:30 p.m., the second part of

Small sentences, great consequences

, a documentary on the small sentences spoken by the last four presidents of the Republic.

Replicas sometimes pronounced with regret, which remain, which stick to their skin like Captain Haddock's adhesive plaster, despite their efforts to get rid of it.

Monday's episode is particularly devoted to Emmanuel Macron.

Words symptomatic of class contempt? 

The documentary focuses on accusations of contempt made against the head of state, already when he was a minister, and draws a parallel with his predecessor, who was also criticized for a lack of empathy towards more deprived.

With, among others, a sentence pronounced in September 2014 on our antenna, while Emmanuel Macron was still Minister of the Economy: "In the files I have, there is the company Gad. You know, this slaughterhouse. In this society there are a majority of women. Many of them are illiterate. " 

Another small sentence which denigrates the working classes and on which this documentary returns, that of François Hollande on the "toothless", sentence reported by Valérie Trierweiler, in her book

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If François Hollande and Emmanuel Macron are two presidents united by their common history, their styles remain very opposed, according to the director of the documentary Thomas Raguet.

"François Hollande has always measured his words in public, has never easily given in to the little phrase, while Emmanuel Macron has made it his trademark," he explains.

"It seemed interesting to us to observe the evolution of one and the other, to compare their two styles: the real talk, the talk-cash of Emmanuel Macron, a bit like Nicolas Sarkozy, and the more curvaceous style, in smiles of François Hollande who was trapped, unfortunately for him, by a private sentence that was never spoken in front of microphones or cameras ”.

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"A word that is freed, a more aggressive tone with hurtful formulas"

The documentary allows above all to give a voice to those who were targeted by these little phrases and who suffered from them: the inhabitants of Goutte d'Or in Paris, those of Argenteuil or even the former employees of the Gad slaughterhouses.

According to the director, these little phrases now occupy a significant place in the public debate.

"There is a word that has been released, a more aggressive tone with hurtful formulas," he notes.

"The little phrases have multiplied due to the multiplication of communication channels and social networks where exchanges are done constantly, and also by the hardening of the political positions of each other", explains Thomas Raguet.

The broadcast of this documentary will be followed by a debate moderated by Jean-Pierre Gratien.