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"The irritability of the French forced to wear a mask, a reflection of our contradictions"

2020-09-03T18:03:12.075Z


TRIBUNE - We often theatrically denounce, in our country, a collective discipline that other liberal democracies accept without drama, observes Jean-Michel Delacomptée, novelist, essayist and scholar.


Jean-Michel Delacomptée has notably published “Notre langue française” (Fayard, 2018), the Hervé Deluen Grand Prize of the Académie française.

He is also the author of remarkable literary portraits, in particular of Montaigne, La Boétie, Racine, Bossuet and Saint-Simon, often published in the prestigious collection “L'Un et l'Autre” by J.-B. Pontalis at Gallimard.

His latest work, “La Bruyère, portrait de nous soi” (Robert Laffont, 2019), has received critical acclaim.

No one ever claimed that we should wear a mask until the end of time.

However, if we judge by the flood of comments on the Covid, many of our compatriots experience this obligation as an aberrant torture.

However, this should not last beyond a year, or even much less, until a reliable vaccine or effective treatment is developed.

But it is common in France to over-dramatize situations that call for a little wisdom.

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Source: lefigaro

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