T-shirt, jacket, pants, glasses : everything is black at the home of Jean-François Colosimo, the boss of Editions du Cerf, venerable house catholic become a launch pad for young authors of the right identity. His vision of the contemporary world is also, black. “People kill in the name of God “, he recalls, and the time would be limbo of the “black light” of individualism. The present public, this Wednesday, October 17, in the great hall on the first floor of the party headquarters of The Republicans, to Paris, to growls of approval. A hundred people, mostly elderly, gathered for this new edition of the ” rendez-vous des idées “, a cycle of meetings hosted by the deputy for the Yonne Guillaume Larrivé.
” We are blinded by the religion of the Enlightenment. This belief is dying under our eyes, “proclaims Jean-François Colosimo, who calls, in the face of this” religious artificial “, a return to the ” historical religions “, ” religious without additive “. The audience roared with pleasure and clapping at the same time. With the blessing of the president of LR, Laurent Wauquiez, who strongly encourages this kind of appointment.
Since he took the head of the right-wing party, in December 2017, the president of the region Auvergne-Rhône-Alps seeks to broaden the spectrum of the “family” LR, in particular on its banks are conservative. The term has not always good press in France, unlike anglo-saxon countries, but it wins little by little in the terrain. “This is not yet ripe for us “, recognizes an elected official close to Mr. Wauquiez, who does not claim (yet) in the expression. But the intellectual ferment of this camp, which sees stir the essayists Laetitia Strauch-Bonart and François-Xavier Bellamy, or actors from right out the walls – movement to the right of identity, non-partisan – created emulators. In the wake of François Fillon, Mr Wauquiez…