This article comes from Figaro Magazine
The scene is wonderful.
It takes place on May 10, 1981, during the televised announcement of François Mitterrand's victory in the presidential election.
In their small apartment in Toulouse, the six members of the Chakraoui family attend the event, suspended by the reaction of their father, a crane driver.
She's hysterical.
Of anger.
Surprise from the son, Mourad, convinced that the left is pro-immigrant and the right, racist, like the sky is blue and the grass is green.
Historical reminder of the father on the role of Mitterrand and the Molletist left in Algeria: special powers granted to the army, sending paratroopers to Algiers, implicit authorization of the Gégène, death penalty applied against FLN militants, etc.
“They don’t teach you that in your baccalaureate?”
Because the subject of
Ma part de Gaulois
is indeed this: telling how, at the end of the 1970s, a kid of Algerian origin is pushed by his saintly mother - an idealist, played with a…
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