Thank You for This Moment

Merci pour ce moment (English:Thank you for this moment) is a 2014 best-selling political memoir authored by Valérie Trierweiler, a French journalist and the former partner of French President François Hollande.

Merci pour ce moment
AuthorsValérie Trierweiler
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench
GenrePolitical memoir
PublisherLes Arènes
Publication date
4 September 2014
Pages320

Summary

In this political memoir, French journalist Valérie Trierweiler recounts the eighteen months she spent as the romantic partner of French President François Hollande in 2013-2014.[1] The book mixes the political and the personal.[1]

Trierweiler writes that President Hollande "does not like the poor" and calls them "toothless."[2][3] She also writes about finding out about his affair with French actress Julie Gayet from the press.[4][5] She goes on to suggest he kept her on "astronomical" amounts of tranquilizers in hospital shortly after they broke up to make sure she would not make a scene.[2]

Critical reception

In France, the book became a bestseller, selling 200,000 copies during the first week.[2] However, many bookshops refused to sell it, arguing they did not want to be an "outlet for Ms Trierweiler's dirty laundry."[2]

In The Guardian, Kim Willsher criticised Trierweiler for publishing the book, asking, "Why would an intelligent, sophisticated woman, and a former political journalist to boot, write a book that causes random harm to so many, including the author, and does such a great disservice to women?"[6]

The English version was translated by Clémence Sebag.[7] It was scheduled to be released in the United States.[8] The book has also been translated into Italian, Spanish, Albanian, Bulgarian, Chinese, Lithuanian, Portuguese, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Vietnamese and Persian.[9][10]

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