Le Figaro has selected passages from the book by the President of the Rassemblement National, What I’m looking forpublished next Saturday by Fayard.
From his family origins to his political ambitions, Jordan Bardella tells the story of his life at the age of 29, his rise within the RN thanks to the support of Marine Le Pen and her impressions of Emmanuel Macrona close acquaintance from the Saint-Denis meetings a year ago.
First name
How can we forget the incredulity of an activist my age at a Paris meeting: “Seriously? Is your name really Jordan?“I blamed the mocking smiles and condescending remarks, without understanding the reason. “Why did you choose this first name? Why didn’t you give me a middle name? I asked my mother one evening. – Your father and I would have preferred an Italian name, but we couldn’t agree. And Jordan was in fashion at the time. “(…) I was born in Drancy, in Seine-Saint-Denis, at the Bois d’Amour clinic. Our housing estates are called Arthur Rimbaud, Victor Hugo, Jean Moulin, Elsa…
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