Elizabeth Bourne can thank the deputies of La France insoumise. Their relaxed and brash manner, by contrast, made his speech monotonous and a little metallic almost soft and soothing to the ear. Their blunt opposition was also the most effective plea for compromise. Facing this hostility, the Prime Minister did not tremble. He crossed the barbed barrier of general policy speech unscathed. Anxious, he said. “in big sentences” and: “in little words” he preferred to modulations and outbursts of eloquence a stern manner, lightened by a few mischievous smiles. The spirit of geometry prevailed over the power of words, a catalog of measurements over the outlines of a grand design, a concern for efficiency over a ripple effect. Technical, precise, persistent. this is the Borne touch. It has the merit of authenticity. Jansenist does not pretend to be baroque. To paraphrase Cocteau, “one sings well only on one’s own branch”
Source: Le Figaro
