Guillaume Meurice

Guillaume Meurice Pourquoi est-on dans la merde jsqu'au cou? (et comment ne pas baisser la tête)

The far-right is at the gates of power, the Fifth Republic is in agony, French democracy is faltering, and Bernard Arnault had a second helping of truffles in the canteen.

In this show-conference, Guillaume Meurice explains why we have reached this point, how to resist and prepare for what comes next, to, as Victor Hugo almost said, “astonish the catastrophe with how little fear it gives us, for fuck's sake!” How did we get here? To selling off our democracy, which was once our pride? To letting darkness conquer the country of Enlightenment? To considering voting for Retailleau to block Bardella? To letting François Hollande believe his opinion was still legitimate?

In short, we're in deep shit.

This is the observation made, in more subdued terms, by everyone currently worried about public liberties. But we still need to ask why. In his new show, Guillaume Meurice traces the historical causes that led us to this fiasco. Failed revolutions, electoral rigging, constitutional sleights of hand, betrayals... etc. The path is chaotic and not without absurdity. We encounter Clovis, emperors, Louise Michel, Charles de Gaulle, Aurore Bergé... We discover that power (SPOILER ALERT) is a violent poison.

But.

Because there is a “but”.

Guillaume Meurice also explores the means and tools at our disposal to reverse the trend and fight our greatest enemy: resignation.

So, allons enfants de la patrie (and elsewhere), the day of glory may not be so far away after all.