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Guillaume Tabard: "Homage to Samuel Paty, from the Republic to the nation"

2020-10-22T17:55:10.043Z


COUNTERPOINT - The symbol of the Sorbonne is even stronger than many imagine.Jean-Luc Mélenchon as much as Nicolas Dupont-Aignan greeting the words "fair" or "strong" of Emmanuel Macron: this is a sign of the national unity which manifested itself on Wednesday evening in the courtyard of the Sorbonne. The words, the images, the texts read, the music chosen - even in the daring choice to combine Mozart and U2: everything has contributed to making this half-hour before curfe


Jean-Luc Mélenchon as much as Nicolas Dupont-Aignan greeting the words

"fair"

or

"strong"

of Emmanuel Macron: this is a sign of the national unity which manifested itself on Wednesday evening in the courtyard of the Sorbonne.

The words, the images, the texts read, the music chosen - even in the daring choice to combine Mozart and U2: everything has contributed to making this half-hour before curfew a moment of unfeigned communion.

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The choice of location is not for nothing.

It is a beautiful intuition to have added the courtyard of the Sorbonne to that of the Invalides and to the Pantheon in the list of these places of memory where France knows how to honor those who served it or fell for it, in a form of lay liturgy.

Emmanuel Macron associated this choice with the spirit of the Enlightenment and the promises of the Republic of which Samuel Paty was, he said,

"the face"

.

But precisely, the Sorbonne carries more than that;

more than a regime and a philosophy born at the end of the 18th century.

This is what the teacher

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Source: lefigaro

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