NOTEBOOK. A new stone in the garden of Zemmour; an academician’s diary which speaks ill of no one; return to Malraux and Bangladesh.
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JUntil now, to respond to the infamy of Éric Zemmour on Pétain, protector of French Jews, we had a choice. The facts: the eagerness of Vichy, from the summer of 1940, without German pressure, to promulgate its anti-Semitic legislation. The figures: 80% of the children arrested during the Vél’d’Hiv roundup were French. Cases that everyone knows: the family of Simone Veil rounded up, Lorraine genealogy or not, in March 1944; Robert Badinter whose parents, also French, perished in Sobibor and Auschwitz. Books: Yesterday, Robert Paxton; today, Laurent Joly. Well here’s a movie, A young girl who is well, directed by Sandrine Kiberlain, which comes to rank among the good machines to set the record straight. This fiction is certainly not a…
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De Gaulle – Think, resist, govern
His name has become synonymous with a free and powerful France. De Gaulle, the man of the appeal of June 18, has established himself in history first as a rebel, a resistance fighter and then as a charismatic political leader, in France and abroad. Adored, hated during his presidency, he became after his death a myth, an ideal politician that on the right and on the left we begin to regret.
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