The historian Pierre Vermeren would have preferred to postpone the election of the French President until the autumn.

It was a "disaster" that there was no election campaign.

He started with Pétain, but was stopped by Putin.

France, writes Vermeren, cannot afford to do without an assessment and a debate about its situation: "People act as if everything is only half as bad." "Fortunately" the campaign was canceled, however, says Jacques Julliard : Never before has the 89-year-old left-wing historian experienced such a “hodgepodge of nonsense”.

In Figaro he describes the election, the first round of which will take place on April 10, as “Russian roulette”.

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Julliard elaborates: "We find ourselves in a counter-revolution by authoritarian and totalitarian regimes that have felt threatened by the people's striving for freedom and democracy for thirty years." He dates the deceptive "end of history" from 1989 and Fukuyama to the Battle of Jena 1806 and Hegel return.

In the account given by his French exegete Alexandre Kojève, Hegel did indeed believe in the end of history.

Julliard cannot help but point out that Kojève was an agent for the Soviet Union.

The attack on Ukraine poses the question of the "meaning of history" par excellence.

From China in 1989 to the Arab Spring to Ukraine, Julliard lists the revolts that have been stifled.

France is not an “exemplary democracy”, the “yellow vests” got rid of Macron through the wallet and thus fought the virus.

He calls for "States-General": "How can one dream of a partnership with Germany and leadership in Europe in this country that has lost its mind?"

The left Julliard will choose the right Valérie Pécresse.

The Republican is the only one who resists the "demagogic intoxication" and makes proposals to reduce the "astronomical debt": "It will pay her back." When Pécresse declared that she would like to appoint Leïla Slimani as Minister of Culture, not only the writer reacted with an outcry.

Five years ago, influential intellectuals opposed Emmanuel Macron.

Michel Onfray ridiculed him as the “rubber doll of capital”, the new right thinker Alain de Benoist as “the Pied Piper whose morphology tells us that he can be manipulated and is incapable of making decisions”.

The intellectuals were the pioneers of the hatred directed at Macron.

In the current election campaign, which Éric Zemmour stirred up, they are holding back.

Election slogans are not issued.

This not only affects Macron, sympathizers of other candidates are also known, but do not comment.

They don't show up at meetings.

Will Michel Houellebecq choose Zemmour or Marine Le Pen?

Laurent Binet, the official chronicler of François Hollande in the 2012 election campaign, this time supports the left-wing radical Jean-Luc Mélenchon - albeit with the caveat that he does so as a citizen, not as a writer.

Annie Ernaux (also Mélenchon) and Marie Desplechin (Greens) refused the news magazine "L'Express" to confirm their alleged vote.

"According to his conscience" he should vote for the Green Yannick Jadot, says Frédéric Beigbeder.

"But I don't put up posters," says Jean-Christophe Rufin from the Académie française, putting his commitment to Pécresse into perspective: "At least she knows the importance of the book."

A spectacular paradigm shift is underway.

It corresponds to the implosion of the political system in France that Macron initiated.

After the election, the right, like the left in 2017, will experience a big bang.

For a second time, the Republicans will not survive the missed entry into the runoff election.

Her last superfather, Sarkozy, refuses to support Pécresse.

He is planning an alliance with Macron for the parliamentary elections.

The extreme right has won its Kulturkampf and conquered ideological hegemony: Le Pen and Zemmour come to thirty percent.

If you add the votes of Mélenchon and some splinter candidates, Putin's friends in France can hope for a majority.

You will also have to analyze the results on Sunday from such aspects.

In the runoff, there will probably be a repeat of the 2017 duel.

Shortly thereafter, Annie Ernaux and Laurent Binet proclaimed that they would not fall into the trap again of voting Macron over Marine Le Pen.