Emmanuel Macron Catherine Nay book on early career, Digi Mart USA News (France): Political journalist Catherine Nay presented a new book on the early years of Emmanuel Macron as a guest of Dimitri Pavlenko on Europe 1 on Tuesday morning. The book, titled “Ce pays dont le prince est un enfant” (“This Country Whose Prince Is a Child”), describes a man who sought early on to win over the personalities who could help his rise.
Nay said that Macron’s friends used to say he was always courting the professors, adding that he was “a charmer of the powerful.” According to her, Macron “understood very quickly 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 générale des finances. She said Macron sought to meet influential figures and organized numerous small breakfast meetings to make himself known.
“He himself shaped his advance in a destiny he had not yet written. But in any case, he wanted to be the highest and the strongest,” Nay said.
The interview was published as Macron approaches the end of his second term as president of the Republic. The publisher article has not been independently verified.
