Henri Guaino

Henri Guaino , born on March 11th, 1957 with Arles, is a French senior official. He is, since the May 16th 2007, special adviser of Nicolas Sarkozy.

Studies

Henri Guaino did not know his father. He is raised by his mother, cleaning lady, and his grandmother.

He is graduate Institut of political studies of Paris but fails by three times the entrance examination ÉNA.

Career before the presidential campaign of 2007

Economist with the Crédit Lyonnais (1982 - 1986) and part-time lecturer to the National college of business of Paris and the National university of Saint-Cloud (1984 - 1987), he becomes operations manager with the direction of the Treasury to the ministry for Finances and assistant of the general secretary of the Club of Paris (1987 - 1988).

During the countryside of Jacques Chirac for the presidential election of 1988, it is charged by Jean-Marie Messier with rewriting the interviews of Jacques Chirac. it is brought to defend the speech:

Did it really have to be recalled that the colonizer built bridges?
HG : The speech of Dakar contains the indictment more the relentless against colonization… Nicolas Sarkozy said to young African: The heritage of colonization is also yours. There are all the crimes, but there are also the human rights, the equality man-women, universalism…
Paternalism there was seen. And your description of the African man locked up in the eternal restarting is very badly passé.
HG : The speech of Dakar does not express any feeling of superiority. He speaks to the Africans not as with children but as with brothers… As for the eternal recommendement, it is an imaginary commun run with all humanity at certain times of its history… Each civilization made its own synthesis. Africa must do his… .

In the same way, it intervenes in the polemic which was established during October on the cogency to prescribe with the teachers the reading of the letter of Guy Môquet on October 22nd. October 19th, 2007, with the microphone of RTL, Henri Guaino had not admitted the refusal of certain teachers to read with their pupils on October 22nd, 2007, in accordance with the official instruction of August 30th, 2007 within the framework of the national commemorative day decided by Nicolas Sarkozy, the letter of Guy Moquet. It had fustigated these professors " whose nation paid studies, whose nation pays the salaire". A few days later, it is expressed again about the reading of the letter of Guy Môquet and reconsiders the genesis of the irruption of Guy Môquet in the countryside of Sarkozy:

If you were professor, that would you say to your pupils?
HG : … Guy Môquet is not a figure of the resistance of the stature of a Jean Moulin. He is communist like his imprisoned father. He resists his way. He falls victim from cruelty Nazi. At this time, it is one of the most beautiful faces of France
Why did it touch Sarkozy so much, this text which he did not know?
HG : It is a moving text. During the countryside, one read a passage in a speech of it. It was one very intense moment. Little by little, it became a figure familiar of the countryside. There was no calculation… .

The historian Jean-Pierre Azéma had precisely opposed the directive on the reading of the letter of Guy Môquet to the repentance of Jacques Chirac, in July 1995, for the attitude of the State, France in the deportation of the Jews of France. This leads Guaino to be expressed again on the repentance:

Would the fashion, to hear to you be with the repentance?
HG : The politically correct one pushes with the repentance. One wants to make expier with wire the faults of the fathers. It is absurd. My France with me, it was not in Vichy… But it is necessary to resist this fashion of the repentance which ends up expressing the hatred of oneself, which often leads to the hatred of the autres
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