To be or not to be rich

Durant leur premier débat, voici ce qu'Hillary Clinton a dit de Donald Trump: "Maybe he is not as rich as he says he is". Imaginez une telle remarque entre deux candidats français ! Pourtant en France, on aime évaluer, discrètement si possible, la richesse de son voisin, une richesse souvent palpable:

[le duc de Guermantes) Formidablement riche dans un monde où on l'est de moins en moins, ayant assimilé à sa personne, d'une façon permanente, la notion de cette énorme fortune, en lui la vanité du grand seigneur était doublée de celle de l'homme d'argent, l'éducation raffinée du premier arrivant tout juste à contenir la suffisance du second. Le côté de Guermantes

During their first debate,Hillary Clinton said of Donald Trump: "Maybe he is not as rich as he says he is". Could you imagine such a remark during a French presidential debate? In France, nobody boasts about one's wealth, but other clues are palpable.

[Duc de Guermantes) Being formidably rich in a world where everyone was steadily growing poorer, and having secured the permanent attachment to his person of the idea of this enormous fortune, he displayed all the vanity of the great nobleman reinforced by that of the man of means, the refinement and breeding of the former just managing to control the latter’s self-sufficiency. The Guermantes Way