Guest from Europe Morning Sunday, the writer and academician Daniel Rondeau greeted the memory of Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, whose funeral took place in a small committee on Saturday, in Authon in Loire-et-Cher.
In his eyes, his election marked a certain break with the Gaullism of previous decades.
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It is a page in the history of France that turned on Saturday, with the funeral of Valéry Giscard d'Estaing.
Invited Sunday in Europe Morning, the writer Daniel Rondeau, who attended the former head of state in the corridors of the French Academy, wanted to recall the wind of reform that caused his arrival to power on France in the 1970s. "Valéry Giscard d'Estaing opened the windows and doors of his house in France," says Daniel Rondeau.
"He made air currents circulate, he arrived with his energy and his technical skills. But we must not forget that he arrived in a very solid France after De Gaulle and Pompidou. He brought France to life. on these achievements ", explains the academician.
Far left activist in the 1970s, Daniel Rondeau says he was marked by the start of the seven-year term.
"During the summer of 1974, I was very surprised by a speech he gave at Saint-Paul prison in Lyon," he recalls.
"He said that prison was the deprivation of freedom to come and go, and nothing else, that is, no abuse, no bullying and that prisoners should be respected."