Quai d'Orsay

Arthur Vlamik holds an important position in the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs at the Quai d'Orsay in Paris: he is responsible for the speeches of Minister Alexandre Taillard de Worms. For the young and dedicated man, a whole new world opens up, where politics goes hand in hand with stress, ambition, and cunning deeds. When the self-important foreign minister is set to speak before the UN General Assembly in New York to mediate in an international crisis, Arthur must naturally follow him and witnesses a windbag who only unleashes storms at home while offering nothing more than a light breeze on the diplomatic stage. Rarely has politics been captured so humorously and accurately as in this work by Christophe Blain, who artfully and entertainingly illustrates the experiences of author Abel Lanzac. Behind the pseudonym Abel Lanzac.