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“French Indochina, from the conquest to Diên Bien Phu”
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He was at the same time the inventor of a strong, inimitable language, where the sharpness of the formula, the harshness of the brief form combine with the melancholic resonance of the periods, with the dizzying depth of the exploration of the abysses of the human soul, and that of a new way of telling history: no longer as a succession of events or a collection of great figures, but as a tragedy. Tacitus was the prophet of decline and the despiser of satiety, the tireless observer of the excesses of the powerful as well as the biographer of the defenders of lost causes. We will never be done with him. He is not only an irreplaceable witness for us…
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