The publication of the book by journalist Pierre Péan on the nationalist and Pétainist commitments of François Mitterrand between 1934 and 1947 was variously commented on in the corridors of the PS summer school which was held this last weekend in La Rochelle. The former treasurer of the PS and MEP Pierre Moscovici said he was, as a socialist and as a Jew, shocked "that in 1994 François Mitterrand admits to having frequented René Bousquet until 1986, the great organizer of the deportation of the Jews in France, and explains that this man is not what we thought and that he took great pleasure in seeing him ”. Asked about the same work, Laurent Fabius said he did not want to forget "that François Mitterrand was the great architect of the gathering of the left and that this is the essential". “I believe that what matters, concluded the former Prime Minister, is the path that a man makes throughout his life and I much prefer this path to the reverse. "