Good use of commemorations.
Or how to make his political agenda coincide with the history of France.
This Friday, September 4, it will be exactly 150 years that Léon Gambetta proclaimed the Republic from the balcony of the town hall of Paris.
This Friday, September 4, it will be the opportunity for Emmanuel Macron to deliver a speech from the Pantheon to recall its fundamental values.
Because the date, "
unjustly forgotten
" according to the Élysée, was not chosen at random.
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"
We are going through a period which leads us to think that it is time to remind our fellow citizens what it is to live in a Republic
", explains an adviser to the President of the Republic.
Separatist strategy, rise of the security issue, questioning of the law, contestation of the right to blasphemy, decline of freedom of expression, desire to rewrite the history of France, debunking of statues… “
The Republic is today 'hui contested by forces that can be qualified as obscurantists,
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