Par Jean-Marc Aubert
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updated on 6 Mar 23 at 9:46
The senator from Hérault, Jean-Pierre Grand is preparing his new book which should be published and distributed in good bookshops at the end of the year. He has already found his title: “Poster Memories”.
The elected spoke with Metropolitan his work on this original work on Sunday morning, during the double tribute paid in Montpellier to Jacques Roseau, assassinated on March 5, 1993: “I knew him well, he was a Chiraquian who knew how to defend the cause of black feetreturnees and harkis”.
The local politician who was mayor of Castelnau-le-Lez for a long time (he was also in the company of the current mayor, Frédéric Lafforgue at this ceremony) and who fought in rather right-wing parties, having supported THE Chirac, Skirted and others in particular, is a great poster collector the best-known candidates in the main elections that shake the country, winners and eternally beaten (until now anyway!) as President of the Republic, a certain Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
How many documents?
“The poster of the leader of LFI, Insubordinate France, where he is registered as a great Prime Minister will appear in the choice that I will have to make, ”reveals Jean-Pierre Grand, unable to give a number of documents, which is part of his precious collection: 200? 400? 600? Well, well, has Mr. Grand lost his memory?! No, they just haven’t counted them all yet.
From Charles de Gaulle
It is certain, his new book “will be thick, because it will include hundreds of posters, some very old, from the period of Charles de Gaulle until the last legislative elections, with, of course, accompanying texts,” he explains. “The Jean-Pierre Grand label” risks being bloody for certain women and politicians. Ah, he led a campaign against Éric Zemmour, inviting all mayors to blacklist him. Question: will a poster of the right-wing extremist have its place in the next sheets of these memoirs?
Support of Emmanuel Macron
At 72, this “old” veteran of politics who sailed with the RPR, the UMP, the RS, before leaving Les Républicains in October 2019 and joining LIRT, the party Les Indépendants of the family of the president of the Republic. Moreover, Jean-Pierre Grand called for support for Emmanuel Macron in the last presidential elections, which caused a stir. In the Senate, he is a member of the Committee on Economic Affairs and in the study groups, he is vice-president for bullfightingmember of the Agri-food and agricultural sector, Hunting and territories, Surviving spouses, Eco-construction, Fruits and vegetables, Interest groups, Humanitarian, Secularism, Markets, Non-sedentary trade and Local trade, Prevention and fight against the desecration of places of worship and cemeteries, ReturneesSport and sports education, Tibet and Cities of Art and History, which keeps him very busy.
Sunday afternoon, after the ceremonies for the anniversary of the assassination of Jacques Roseau, he left Montpellier airport to reach the capital, where a tough week awaits the senators on the thorny pension reform project. Jean-Pierre Grand has already published four books and essays: Journey beyond appearances: the klongs of Bangkok and a global view of a journey in watercolor (2001), Hommes: Usages (1998), Resistance Or Submission: Snatches of a Christian Conversation (1986) and Claude Mongrain: three small public sculptures in 1993.
Between two stays in Paris, in the hemicycle, Jean-Pierre Grand finds the time to refine his fifth. To aim for the top of the poster?
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