The end of 1970 was marked by three spectacular deaths.
Let us judge: September 1, the writer François Mauriac;
October 9, the former deportee resistant and Keeper of the Seals Edmond Michelet;
November 9, Charles de Gaulle.
Three personalities from the post-war period who, each in their own order, literary or political, have marked their time.
From this fatal autumn, the writer Xavier Patier, grandson of Michelet, in a remarkable book (1) made a symbolic moment, as if the disappearance of these characters largely exceeded their mere death: with them went an era , a way of acting, thinking and writing, in a France from the 19th century to which they were the heirs and which they had marked by their temperament and their rich life.
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They were three men from deep France - no one spoke of “territories” yet: Mauriac the man of Malagar, Michelet the child of Corrèze and de Gaulle the illustrious guest of Colombey-les-Deux-Églises.
All three had been
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