Jean-Luc Mélenchon : discussion sans filtre avec François Lenglet (Présidentielle 2027)

Jean-Luc Mélenchon, hello. Good morning. You need no introduction. You are Me neither. the founder of and one of the central figures of the France Unbowed, and then you are above all presidential candidate and according to polls, about to be at second round. We've known each other for a fifteen years. We got a bit heated on the

television studios at the time. The situation is quite different. Today. Do you think France is in a period? My question is motivated. of course, due to recent events October 17th, but more broadly by the a succession of crises that we have known. I recently read a book that you know which is called The Mood

Robert Darnton's pre-revolutionary historian of the French Revolution who tell the years between 1740 and 1789. He implicitly points out similarities. extraordinary in the current era. During periods of intense emotion as they used to say under the old regime obviously you will find enough spontaneously comparable traits see human beings. SO It matters to anyone involved in politics

in a tumultuous country like France to remember that it is a country tumultuous. We are not at Denmark, we are not in Switzerland and we have a very long history a restless people probably because we are built on foundations that are quite unique in Europe. Uh The European peoples, if you want the

Europe's true internal border uh, that's the border of the Roman Empire. Uh, below that's the city, the law from the ground. Beyond that, it's the right of blood. The horde, the tribe, uh, the folk, like say the Germans. It's the beer drinkers versus the wine drinkers. [laughs] No, Yes, if you want, but