It’s not the politics, it’s the Latin and Greek. For someone returning to Paris after years away, what is striking about France is not the ambition of a president who compares his role to that of the king of the gods — nothing peculiarly French there in the age of Donald Trump — but the delightful persistence of classical history and mythology in public discourse. Emmanuel Macron’s early belief in a “Jupiterian” presidency for contemporary France is one example.
不是政治,而是拉丁語和希臘語。對于一個闊別多年后重返巴黎的人而言,法國令人矚目的地方并非一個自比眾神之王的總統的雄心——在唐納德?特朗普(Donald Trump)時代,這也不是法國特有的現象——而是公共話語中令人欣喜地仍然存在經典歷史與神話。埃馬紐埃爾?馬克龍(Emmanuel Macron)早期認為當代法國需要一位“朱庇特式”總統的信念就是一例。