Have hereditary enemies really become friends?
Friends of reason, it will be said.
The interview book between the French Hélène Miard-Delacroix and the German Andreas Wirsching, two seasoned historians and nevertheless friends, revolves around this question.
The conversation is lively, as if it were a question of refereeing a football match.
Whoever does not have the irresistible desire to "remake the match" of France-Germany, whether it is football or history, get up and stop reading these lines.
But, unlike football, each counts the goals scored by the other, and, in the end, “Françallemagne” wins.
Hélène Miard-Delacroix, who teaches the history of Franco-German relations at Sorbonne University, observes by telephone that
"It has been exactly seventy-five years that the two countries no longer waged war against each other, whereas they had fought each other in the previous seventy-five years."
We have indeed reached this discreet tipping point where peacetime
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