The academic, specializing in the history of Rome, has several strings to his bow.
Passionate musician, who has been practicing the lute for forty years, hypodeaster of the Orthodox Church, Bertrand Lançon is also deputy mayor of Mont-Saint-Jean, in Sarthe.
He publishes
When does France begin?
(Perrin).
This remarkably erudite book examines the genesis of a country whose topicality is marked by very violent quarrels over secularism and communitarianism.
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"To resist attacks against secularism, a constitutional review is needed"
LE FIGARO.
- You evoke the roots of France in the plural.
How to define these?
Bertrand LANÇON.
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It is an ethnic multiplicity over a long period: two millennia.
The French fabric is woven from Gauls, Greeks, Romans, Jews, Franks, Burgundians, Alans, Visigoths, Bretons, Basques, on which subsequent centuries have woven Poles, Armenians, Italians, Portuguese, Spaniards, West Indians, Africans, Middle Easterners and Asians.
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