The capital of Europe is not Washington, and the history of European nations is not that of an American province lost on the edge of the limes. In the United States, it was not until 1954 that the Supreme Court declared racial segregation unconstitutional. And it took another twenty years for the struggles waged by Pastor Martin Luther King or Rosa Parks to lead to the adoption of the Civil Rights Act.
In France, in 1954 on the other hand, the Cayennais Gaston Monnerville continued to preside over the Council of the Republic. He had been a member of parliament; he will preside over the Senate. Previously, Félix Éboué, another Cayennes, had made a career in the French administration until the post of governor. His role was preponderant during the war in Chad and Congo to allow the Leclerc column to go up to the coast.
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In the same years, the American Sidney Bechet died in Garches after singing Dans les rues d'Antibes where he had found happiness far from apartheid. In...
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