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“Liberation” had access to the exchanges of members of the influential club which works in the shadows for the victory of the extreme right. Among them, senior civil servants, former ministerial staff and executives of large companies.
April 18, 2022. It’s Monday. Marine Le Pen has just had a crowd bath in Saint-Pierre-en-Auge, in Calvados. The last one before his inter-round debate with Macron. At the end of the walk, she plants everyone, her teams, the journalists, in front of a blue gate and an old stone wall, pretending to join behind a friendly table where to peck. In fact, she goes English style to the other side of the property to reach a more sumptuous and yet more discreet place, twenty minutes by car.
Here she is in Bellengreville, in a 17th century manor house with a listed facade, in the wood-panelled living room where she left her bags the day before and is planning her future face-to-face with the outgoing president. . Very few people know where it is. Around her, only a very restricted circle remains: five people, including the two deputy directors of the campaign, Renaud Labaye, a former Bercy graduate trained at Saint-Cyr and HEC, and Jean-Philippe Tanguy, passed through Sciences-Po and Essec.
Suddenly, Le Pen forgets who she is and begins to imagine herself president. She sees herself in shape