Tribute to Jean-Paul Belmondo: “Anything that allows Emmanuel Macron to be associated with figures of consensus is good to take”

A “national treasure, all in panache and bursts of laughter, the verb high and the body swift “. Thus Emmanuel Macron qualified the interpreter of the Gorgeous and of Ace of aces, died Monday, September 6 at the age of 88. The President of the Republic will deliver the funeral eulogy of Jean-Paul Belmondo in front of his family, his relatives, personalities from the world of culture and a thousand spectators. The event will also be broadcast on giant screens installed on the Esplanade des Invalides.

Charles Aznavour, Johnny Hallyday, and now Jean-Paul Belmondo … The Head of State is now used to paying homage to popular personalities. But what repercussions can he expect from it? Interview with Arnaud Mercier, political communication specialist and teacher at the University of Paris 2 Panthéon Assas.

Franceinfo: Does the president have a particular taste for this kind of ceremony?

Arnaud Mercier: Obviously yes. These ceremonies allow him to exercise a certain talent as a speaker, with very written messages, with literary connotations. In political symbolism, Emmanuel Macron likes to ride the wave of consensual characters, in order to be himself associated with this ability to bring together people from each camp. It pays national tributes to public figures who are recognized as being more or less indisputable. He is very careful not to pay homage to people who would be highly regarded on one side and highly contested on the other.

In the case of Jean-Paul Belmondo, on what fibers can he play?

For Emmanuel Macron, there is the idea of ​​transcending divisions and celebrating those who do the same thing as him. Precisely, Bébel can be appreciated by older generations as well as by the young, by people on the right as well as people on the left. We don’t even care whether he was right-wing or left-wing.

The tribute to Jean-Paul Belmondo will also allow Emmanuel Macron to develop a rhetoric that has been omnipresent in his speeches for a long time, that of French culture, of French identity.

Arnaud Mercier

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The Head of State has repeatedly defined “the French spirit”. He wants to appear as the one who celebrates a certain expression of French culture, whether it is popular with Charles Aznavour or Jean-Paul Belmondo or whether it is a little more literary as with the writer Jean d’Ormesson. He wants to embody the one who knows how to promote French heritage.

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Does the choice of Les Invalides, which is first and foremost a military location, have a special significance?

Emmanuel Macron contributed to demilitarize, if I may say so, the courtyard of the Invalides, since he once again pays homage in this place to a personality who is not military. He is also convinced, rightly or wrongly, that the French have a very important attachment to all that is solemn, royal. The Cour des Invalides allows it to be displayed in a historic place, to be part of a long line. But at the same time he makes it something a little less staid, a little less solemn because he uses this space to celebrate figures of popular culture.

What benefits can he derive from it in relation to the presidential election, when he will probably be a candidate for re-election?

I believe that there is always the same stake for him, it is to appear as someone who knows how to break the usual left-right divisions by being associated with what is consensus. It is all the more important for him that a part of French society, in particular the “yellow vests” or some opponents of the health pass display a detestation, an almost visceral rejection of Emmanuel Macron. Anything that allows the president to be associated with figures of consensus is good to take because it gives credibility, from his point of view, to the idea that he must be able to be associated with something that transcends the left-right divide. .

What is at stake, in a more subliminal way, is the assertion that Emmanuel Macron does not seek the cleavage, unlike, for example, the former President of the United States Donald Trump who affirmed his hatred of those who would be designated as adversaries.

How many votes in the presidential election can this tribute to Jean-Paul Belmondo bring?

No one serious can answer your question! It is not measurable and, above all, this exercise is only one piece of communication in a whole. Its virtue is not to manufacture an element that will trigger an act of voting in favor of Emmanuel Macron, but to accredit an image that he builds elsewhere and that he will solidify, to strengthen in their convictions those to who she can please. This tribute will not convince a “yellow vest” who liked Bébel to vote Macron! That is not possible.

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