Quebec journalist Bertin Leblanc — former spokesperson for La Francophonie (OIF) — and French cartoonist Paul Gros publish a romantic comic strip that is both incisive and cynical on the bumpy ride of an international institution plagued by internal struggles and personal career plans. Beyond the unflattering portrait of an organization out of breath, Leblanc also looks back on his own experience within this machine run by jaded civil servants and manipulative heads of state. He thus recounts his version of the facts regarding the controversies that have marred the mandate of Michaëlle Jean, head of the OIF from 2015 to 2019. Not without humor, the work denounces the media relentlessness against the diplomat, then accused of having renovated, with hundreds of thousands of dollars, her Parisian company apartment. A campaign of demolition which will cause Michaëlle Jean to lose her post of general secretary, replaced by the former Rwandan Minister of Foreign Affairs Louise Mushikiwabo.
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