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The Figaro editorial: "Tears, tributes, and after?"

2020-10-18T19:18:49.813Z


By Alexis Brézet, editorial director of Le Figaro.His name was Samuel Paty, and his name should not be forgotten. It deserves to be remembered among the figures of the republican school, between Louis Germain, the master of Albert Camus, and these black hussars "of an unmeasured devotion to the common interest" sung by Charles Péguy. Samuel Paty, by all accounts, was warm, benevolent, delicate to the point of scruple, adored by his students… The


His name was Samuel Paty, and his name should not be forgotten.

It deserves to be remembered among the figures of the republican school, between Louis Germain, the master of Albert Camus, and these black hussars

"of an unmeasured devotion to the common interest"

sung by Charles Péguy.

Samuel Paty, by all accounts, was warm, benevolent, delicate to the point of scruple, adored by his students… The opposite of a provocateur or a blaster.

He died - and under what atrocious circumstances!

- for wanting to apply the moral and civic education program in fourth grade.

Death from showing his students two satirical representations of Muhammad.

Murdered for teaching freedom.

And no one will tell us this time that he fell by chance, for no reason, under the blows of an "unbalanced"!

On the contrary: everything in the days leading up to the crime seems to lead to this tragedy.

For two weeks, Samuel Paty was the object of a cabal

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Source: lefigaro

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