FR: (en) venir à

[anankarim]

In this sentence "avant d'en venir au cœur de l'affaire" what would be the difference in replacing "d'en venir à" with "de venir à"? Aren't they both correct?

 

[Maître Capello]

The en is part of the idiomatic expression en venir à, which is not the same as venir à. You may not remove the pronoun.

en venir à = come to (in a figurative sense), e.g., en venir à cette conclusion = to come to this conclusion
venir à = come to (in a physical sense), e.g., venir à Paris = to come to Paris