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Figaro Histoire
“Armenia, tragedy and hope”.
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a special file on the history of a country.
“Armenia, tragedy and hope”.
Le Figaro History
Is it a book, a library, a series of works that intersect, illuminate each other and transport the reader through centuries, wars, empires and nations?
We meditate there on fidelity and betrayal, we admire the military and architectural genius of the Greeks, we verify the implacable force of destiny, this gigantic machination which, from Athens to kyiv, inevitably leads men to kill each other. on a battlefield.
The work is called
La Mélancolie d'Athéna
and bears the subtitle
L'invention du patriotisme,
but these very beautiful formulas modestly conceal what is akin to an exercise in gratitude, a profession of faith, a political meditation.
First of all, the Greek light, which softens the stone of the temples and gives war an inimitable brilliance.
For Michael...
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