INTERVIEW
For a long time she had to translate her thoughts into words. Christine Albanel was the pen of Jacques Chirac during part of the years spent at the mayor of Paris, during the first cohabitation and at the beginning of his first presidential term. She is notably at the origin of the speech of Vel d'Hiv, pronounced on July 16, 1995, and in which the President of the Republic recognizes for the first time the responsibility of France in the deportation of the Jews.
"I wrote these words, I translated the conviction and the will of Jacques Chirac to pronounce them and it became a historical speech, even beyond what we thought at the time it was written", tells, at the microphone of Matthieu Belliard on Europe 1, the former Minister of Culture of Nicolas Sarkozy. "Jacques Chirac knew very well that it was an extremely important speech, but it's hard to know when something really takes on a historical dimension," says Christine Albanel.