By aiming to
"put an end to the enslavement of a part of society"
, Gérald Darmanin is part of the semantic wake of the
"savages"
of Jean-Pierre Chevènement.
Some sorrowful minds have seen fit to detect, by an accusatory shorthand, a concept dear to the ranks of Lepénistes.
Except to sink into the stupefaction of spirits, one cannot decently stigmatize a man or an action on the use of an expression, even if it is cherished by others.
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The "savage" opposes Dupond-Moretti and Darmanin
In this case, some have been able to recall, rightly, that the poet Aimé Césaire used such a term in his
Speech on Colonialism
, just like the highly respected political scientist Thérèse Delpech, in
L'Ensauvagement: essay on the return of barbarism in the 21st century
published by Grasset in 2005 and crowned with the Femina prize.
In
Salammbô
, Gustave Flaubert, the great sculptor of sentences of French literature, also, in a language of infinite grace, associated violence with the fact that animality abounds in fruitless force, in uselessness.
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