The Limited Times

Éric Anceau: "Why Elizabeth II was and will remain a part of our own history"

9/8/2022, 6:19:08 PM


FIGAROVOX / TRIBUNE - For the historian, Queen Elizabeth II, who died on September 8, marked history. She owes her popularity to her sense of duty and the fact that she respected the institutions of her country and the people for whom she was responsible, he explains.

Éric Anceau teaches contemporary history at Sorbonne University.

He is a specialist in the state, powers and relations between the people and the elites.

Among his latest books:

Les Élites françaises des Lumières au grand confinement

(Passés Composés, 2020) and

Secularism, a principle.

From Antiquity to the Present

(Passés Composés, 2022).

There will obviously always be some sad people to say that one queen among others has just died, moreover that of perfidious Albion, and that we Republicans have many other worries, starting with the energy crisis. , inflation and climate change and that we don't care about this death like the Year Forty.

And precisely not.

The Year Forty is when Elizabeth really made history alongside her father King George VI and his Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, in the middle of the war against Nazi Germany when London was under bombs and that his country was the last…

This article is for subscribers only.

You have 85% left to discover.

Freedom is also to go to the end of a debate.

Keep reading your article for €0.99 for the first month

I ENJOY IT

Already subscribed?

Login

Similar news: