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The Figaro editorial: "Funny war"

2020-11-11T20:14:44.698Z


By Laurence de Charette.Could the advances of the coronavirus have something to do with the battles of the Great War? Should we establish, as some good minds suggest, a continuity between the French of 2020 and "those of 14", which Emmanuel Macron celebrated on Wednesday with the entry of Maurice Genevoix to the Pantheon? We understand the idea: at the temple of great men, Emmanuel Macron, during a beautiful ceremony, c


Could the advances of the coronavirus have something to do with the battles of the Great War?

Should we establish, as some good minds suggest, a continuity between the French of 2020 and "those of 14", which Emmanuel Macron celebrated on Wednesday with the entry of Maurice Genevoix to the Pantheon?

We understand the idea: at the temple of great men, Emmanuel Macron, during a beautiful ceremony, came to seek this kind of republican communion which would unite behind its leader a people subjected to severe tests.

To face again the "tragedy of history", to exalt the "spirit of nation".

The president, and it is fortunate, was careful not to draw a parallel between the times.

The hairy man in his trench would moreover be astonished to be assimilated to the confined ... From "we are at war", the starting cry of the first confinement, to the strange "riding the tiger" of deconfinement, the executive has too often spun the war metaphor, without succeeding in galvanizing the troop of

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Source: lefigaro

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