WEEKLY SUPPLEMENT / European library

No. 1140

*** CECILE AMAR: L'homme qui ne voulait pas être roi. Conversations avec Jacques Delors. Editions Grasset & Fasquelle (61 rue des Saints-Pères, F- 75006 Paris. Tel: [phone] - Email: [e-mail] - Internet: www.grasset.fr). 2016, 228 pp. €18. ISBN 978-2-246-85725-9.

During his whole life, "active pessimism" was one of the Jacques Delors' driving forces. In the twilight years of his life and suffering from a number of physical ailments that is increasingly reducing his...