In August, the town hall said that the sole reason for moving the statue was the need to clean it after damage and that it had been returned to its owner, the State, who had to give its consent so that the municipality could reinstall it as she wanted. However, nineteen weeks later, the base of the statue of Voltaire remains hopelessly empty, underlines Bérénice Levet.
For the philosopher, the real reason for this situation therefore lies in the fear of seeing the effigy of Voltaire again degraded by activists as it was in June 2020 in imitation of the acts of vandalism then committed in the United States. . However, no author is more necessary to France today than Voltaire, explains Bérénice Levet. Not that the great man of letters inspires unreserved admiration on every occasion. But “let's reopen the work, without warning. It deserves it and lavishes us with powerful resources, ”argues the philosopher in a text by
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