Entertaining and informative

A priori, the character is diametrically away from my own political opinions. Roland is a "left", a real one. However, I have loved the book and I have read it twice: well written (short sentences, hilarious falls), informative, full of dirty tricks and little secrets about world leaders and French politicians that it frequently while Similarly, since 1956; the same year as Jean-Marie Le Pen, which is nevertheless deemed to be the patriarch of the animals who govern us.

It shows a portrait of a very cultured man with an engaging personality and an independent and strong character. The table that he painted of his friend and mentor François Mitterrand it makes me almost sympathetic; nothing to see, in any case, with this stunning monument dhagiographie courtesan quest "Verbatim", Jacques Attali, who fell mest hands after 50 pages (not Jacques Attali, his book).

Roland Dumas sometimes pours a little into the gossip (the supposed mistress of General de Gaulle - if true, is not the long, the alleged membership of Benedict XVI to the Hitler Youth - which is remained administrative in since it was mandatory during the war ...) but hey, over 500 pages it's still excusable. You learn a lot by cons, sleeping around on the All-Paris (not very serious it all ...) and also full of these little stories that make the big one.

In conclusion, I enjoyed this book and I can only recommend to the contemporary political history enthusiasts who want a break between two paving stones more or less indigestible, see above for names.