In recent years, GK Chesterton (1874-1936) has regained an honorable place in French editorial life.
For a long time, Philippe Maxence was the only one to keep his memory, with intelligence and piety.
Alain Finkielkraut had also given him a very good place in
L'Ingratitude
, in 1999, by putting his readers on his track.
Chesterton knew how to reveal the absurdity of modern times, with formulas that strike the mind and make you laugh.
At the end of a year marked by Covidian hysteria and “woke” sectarianism, it is not foolish to turn to him for a break from the madmen.
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At the heart of Chestertonnian philosophy, best expressed in
Heretics
and
Orthodoxy
, is an unwavering confidence in the common man.
"By inclination,"
he wrote, "
I am more tempted to give faith to the mass of workers than to this closed class of boring literati to which I belong."
But the common man is not content with an existence
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