Ten years ago, Roland Lescure quit a high-flying finance job in Canada to answer Emmanuel Macron’s call for an economic and political revolution in France. The banker was lured back to his homeland by the opportunity to turn back the rising tide of the far right and hand the next generation of leaders a pro-European, business-friendly bastion.
“I was 50 and I had my mid-life of crisis,” Lescure, Macron’s fourth finance minister, said in an interview. “Some people change lives, some people change country, I just decided to change course and join the political movement.”
But when Macron makes way for a successor next year, the movement will be effectively over. The revolution couldn’t crack France’s ambivalent relationship with capitalism.
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