Vincent Bolloré's Secret Meetings: How the Reactionary Billionaire Is Already Influencing the Presidential Election

Investigation: Reactionary billionaire Vincent Bolloré heads a media empire within which he imposes his Catholic and identity-based obsessions. Officially retired, he limits his appearances, but not his efforts to work towards the victory of the right in 2027, including the most extreme.

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Jordan Bardella entered the mansion through the gate on the Boulevard de Montmorency side, at the end of Paris's ^16th arrondissement. Passersby can't miss the Breton flag, adorned with two Vendée hearts, proudly screwed to the facade of the stone building. This is where billionaire Vincent Bolloré has set up his offices, after having the gates raised and surveillance cameras installed. From his window, he can sometimes watch his friend Nicolas Sarkozy, who lives nearby, jogging. His house is on the other side of the garden, Villa Montmorency, a private enclave for billionaires where his neighbors are called Arnaud Lagardère or Laurent Dassault.

"I wanted to tell you why I wrote this book," begins Jordan Bardella, in the ground-floor library lounge. Facing the president of the National Rally (RN), on this spring day in 2024, Vincent Bolloré shows interest. It was he who insisted on publishing the first book of the likely far-right candidate for the 2027 presidential election, in one of the publishing houses he has just acquired, Fayard. A few months...

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