Xavier Darcos: “Tacitus does not doubt for a second the superiority of Roman civilization” He was, says Lamartine, “the summary of the human race” The chancellor of the Institut de France highlights in a luminous essay the acuity of Tacitus' view on politics, the permanences and the abysses of human nature. This article is taken from Le Figaro Histoire “French Indochina, from the conquest to Diên Bien Phu”.
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