The usage of the illustrious poem by Louis Aragon, engaged in his time inside the Communist Celebration, has progressively develop into, on the left, an unsurpassable reflex… And outdated?
It’s now a basic of each perilous electoral occasion for the left: the solemn allusion to The Rose and the Reseda
reconciled, within the wake of a monument of French poetry. Louis Aragon wrote this poem in 1943 within the midst of the Nazi Occupation to have a good time the union of the Communist and the Catholic within the Resistance. It has misplaced none of its relevance eighty years later, at the least within the eyes of left-wing political leaders, fast to convey it out as quickly as nationalism threatens.
Already in the course of the European marketing campaign, socialist leaders had used the reference equivalent to Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol, mayor of Rouen, who had cited just a few verses throughout a gathering. The dissolution of June 9 didn’t dry up the Aragomania of the left. The following day, it was François Ruffin who spoke concerning the poem on France Inter. Even the centrist Jean-Louis Bourlanges bought concerned the subsequent day, on the identical channel. This Friday, June 14, ecologist Julien Bayou takes word of the opposition to his candidacy on the left, towards a backdrop of accusations of harassment from his ex-partner, declares his withdrawal from the upcoming Standard Entrance marketing campaign and… cites in flip the Aragonian textual content.