Journalist and writer Franz-Olivier Giesbert won the 2023 Political Book Prize this Saturday for Intimate History of the Fifth Republic – The Belle Epoque (Gallimard), volume 2 of a trilogy that dissects fifty years of personal archives.
In this book, the editorialist and former director of Le Point explores the 1970s, a decade marked by the mandates of Georges Pompidou and Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, by the advent to the left of François Mitterrand, in a context of economic growth but also severe oil shocks.
Franz-Olivier Giesbert’s book was selected by a jury of journalists, chaired by former minister Roselyne Bachelot, against two other finalists: Voyage au bout de la gauche (Stock), by journalist Laurent Telo, and On aura tout tried (Fayard), by political scientist Chloé Morin.
