Catherine Nay Book on Emmanuel Macron’s early years, Digi Mart USA News: Political journalist Catherine Nay described Emmanuel Macron as a “charmer of the powerful” in an interview with Dimitri Pavlenko on Europe 1 on Tuesday morning. She was discussing her new book on the early years of Macron, published as the second presidential term nears its end.
The book, titled “Ce pays dont le prince est un enfant,” portrays a man who, according to Nay, sought early on to win over people who could help his rise. She said that friends described him as always trying to charm teachers, and that he “quickly understood that to get somewhere, you should not go through the bottom, you should go through the top.”
Nay illustrated this strategy with his years at the Inspection des finances, where she said Macron sought out influential figures and organized numerous breakfast meetings to make himself known. She argued that he shaped an advancement toward a destiny he had not yet written, adding that “he wanted to be the highest and the strongest.”
