A trustworthy witness

Throughout his career, Alain Duhamel has remained humble and respectful of "Off". Result, tongues are always easily untied during these fifty years of talks with the policies that have made our history.

Writing is nice, very rich vocabulary sometimes too. That do not come up against the "leather" by Georges Marchais or on the "unfading" nature of Michèle Alliot-Marie? This history of the Fifth Republic will remain a reference for those who want to understand it through the men who made it.

Alain Duhamel has an account to settle with anyone. Neither sound nor fury but rather an acknowledged sensitivity to some of the actors in this comedy of Power. What makes his point even more invigorating.

One complaint, addressed to the editor: Why persist in this type of cheap glued binding that is before the end of the reading of the book we are left with a bundle of separate sheets? This is unacceptable!