{"id":908760,"date":"2026-05-03T15:35:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T15:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/908760\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T15:35:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T15:35:20","slug":"quarante-ans-apres-sa-mort-glacial-populaire-et-autoritaire-tel-etait-gaston-defferre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/908760\/","title":{"rendered":"Quarante ans apr\u00e8s sa mort\u00a0: glacial, populaire et autoritaire, tel \u00e9tait Gaston Defferre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Si le temps estompe les images, fait p\u00e2lir la vivacit\u00e9 des souvenirs et des conflits, il renforce les contrastes et continue de nourrir les contradictions. Quarante ans apr\u00e8s sa mort, ceux qui ont c\u00f4toy\u00e9 Gaston Defferre restent prudents. Comme s\u2019ils craignaient encore que le vieux lion, maire de Marseille pendant trente-cinq ans, ne les tance depuis l\u2019au-del\u00e0 ou ne leur lance son chapeau comme pour les d\u00e9goupiller. Autoritaire et froid, mais aussi capable d\u2019une grande compassion, \u00ab\u00a0impitoyable\u00a0\u00bb, disent certains, mais acceptant d\u2019\u00e9couter les arguments des autres, d\u00e9centralisateur \u00e0 Paris et tr\u00e8s centralisateur \u00e0 Marseille, parfois violent, \u00e0 l\u2019image de <a href=\"https:\/\/www.laprovence.com\/article\/politique\/10372684099284\/notre-serie-vue-sur-maire-defferre-un-dernier-duel-pour-l-honneur-et-la-vanite\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">son duel \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9p\u00e9e face au d\u00e9put\u00e9 de droite Ren\u00e9 Ribi\u00e8re, en\u00a01967<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; il l\u2019avait trait\u00e9 \u00ab\u00a0d\u2019abruti\u00a0\u00bb \u00e0 l\u2019Assembl\u00e9e -, mais aussi fid\u00e8le en amiti\u00e9, Defferre intrigue toujours. \u00ab\u00a0Un jour, alors que nous visitions une exposition \u00e0 Marseille, se souvient l\u2019\u00e9crivain Jean Contrucci, ancien journaliste au Proven\u00e7al que Defferre tenait d\u2019une main de fer, il me tape sur l\u2019\u00e9paule. Il savait mon fils gravement malade et revenait de New York, d\u2019o\u00f9 il m\u2019avait ramen\u00e9 un m\u00e9dicament non autoris\u00e9 en France. J\u2019en ai \u00e9t\u00e9 tr\u00e8s surpris, parce qu\u2019il \u00e9tait d\u2019une&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Si le temps estompe les images, fait p\u00e2lir la vivacit\u00e9 des souvenirs et des conflits, il renforce les&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":908761,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2814],"tags":[5734,1111,11,1764,46037,1777,674,1011,27,18626,4933,884,18,12,316,882,25,8133,3356],"class_list":["post-908760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-marseille","tag-5734","tag-actu","tag-actualites","tag-ans","tag-defferre","tag-eu","tag-europe","tag-fr","tag-france","tag-gaston","tag-homme","tag-marseille","tag-mort","tag-news","tag-politique","tag-provence-alpes-cote-dazur","tag-republique-francaise","tag-retour","tag-sur"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@fr\/116511383817937091","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=908760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/908761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=908760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=908760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=908760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}