The arbiter of elegance hunting

With the clear and short writing good journalist, Raphaelle Bacqué recounts the tragic destiny of a false but true bourgeois aristocrat who thought himself an equal when he was just a butler.
Francois Grossouvre before having his office at the Elysee Palace, after the victory of Mitterrand was first the patron of the campaign even dudit.C'est him Grossouvre, who was the architect of the party's finances pump Socialist known URBA.

Arriving at the seat of power and for taking incoutournable representative of the President, our great bourgeois, authoritarian, demanding, full of his alleged role, by legitimizing some confidence-indifference of the monarch, would be to crack in different areas especially the secret service he would dreamed of being the great master.
Unfortunately, the excessive, clumsy, arrogant and eventually scrap the character earned him the withdrawal of confidence from the President while the latter kept him all the signs of friendship, including the famous walks on the waterfront .. (it is governed in the ambiguity)
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Notwithstanding, Grossouvre was and remained hidden man of the family of the president and -if we may say it zealous servant of the situation.
It will eventually chairman of the presidential committee hunts, which was fine with this great dilettante good rider whose hunting rifle were being held admiration.L'auteur tells a presidential hunting which, if not the luxury of a less ceremonial another age leaves ébahi.Francois Mitterrand who did not participate, did not like this activity but did not go after his hatred since the great Alain Bombard who offered to convert said parks hunts for walkers this does not happen because as always and everywhere the "structures" are concerned mounted slot that nothing moves.

Too proud to accept to be nothing, indulging in the end to a condemnation accompanied by serious charges ..., unable to take on the often thankless role of servant of supreme authority, will disappear as we tragically Grossouvre knows.

With the spotlight on the small world of the Elysee and the "Quai Branly" this book is certainly incomplete but nevertheless instructive light of "court" of that time.