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The Figaro History Newsletter of December 18, 2023

2023-12-18T18:13:43.636Z

Highlights: The Figaro History Newsletter of December 18, 2023. EXCLUSIVE SUBSCRIBER NEWSLETTER - Historical news by Geoffroy Caillet and Isabelle Schmitz. With this letter, you will find the news of the Figaro Histoire and Le Figaro Special Issue. Stories, reports and points of view, but also everything that history inspires us to illuminate the present. To do the work of a historian is not only to retrace past events but to write them on the basis of time.


EXCLUSIVE SUBSCRIBER NEWSLETTER - Historical news by Geoffroy Caillet and Isabelle Schmitz


With this letter, you will find the news of the Figaro Histoire and Le Figaro Special Issue. Stories, reports and points of view, but also everything that history inspires us to illuminate the present.

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A famous allegory of classical painting depicts the muse Clio writing in a large book, to which the wings of a hairy old man serve as a lectern. Like any good allegory, "History writing on the wings of Time" carries a lesson: to do the work of a historian is not only to retrace past events but to write them on the basis of time, that is, through and by means of it. The paradox is not small: time obscures our perception of what has happened, but also allows us to disentangle the true from the false, to correct perspectives, to sweep away the dross, to dispel the shadows to clarify the facts.

It is this long-term work of the historian in the school of time that is evidenced by the...

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