by Gilles Perrault · Folio · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782070326952
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«Notre ami le roi» is Gilles Perrault's political history essay on Hassan II, published by Folio in paperback (384 pages, in French).
Gilles Perrault investigates the reign of Hassan II of Morocco and dismantles the image of a modern, dialoguing monarch that he projected to the West. The work documents how the king sustained his absolute power through repression, corruption and electoral fraud, and gathers testimonies about torture and disappearances, with allusions to Tazmamart and the Oufkir children. A portrait of palace intrigues and the suffering of the Moroccan people under a regime based on fear.
The work was originally published in 1990; this 1992 edition was revised and expanded with Christine Daure-Jouvin. It is volume 40 of the Folio actuel collection.
For readers of Moroccan and Maghreb history interested in authoritarian power; requires proficiency in French, as the edition is in that language.
Jacques Peyroles, better known by his pen name Gilles Perrault, was a French writer and journalist.
