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's next, to, as Victor Hugo almost said, “astonish the catastrophe by how little fear it gives us, goddammit!” How did we get here? To selling off our democracy, which was once our pride? To letting darkness conquer the land of Enlightenment? To considering voting for Retailleau to block Bardella? To letting François Hollande think 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, come on, children of the homeland (and elsewhere), the day of glory may not be so far away after all.