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"Algeria: appeasing the past to restore national unity"

2021-01-20T19:43:33.131Z


COUNTER-POINT - For Emmanuel Macron, appeasing the gaze on the past is a necessary condition to ward off the tears of the present.


As Benjamin Stora was finishing his report, France was struck by the beheading of Samuel Paty and the assassinations in the church in Nice.

It is the historian who underlines this concordance to affirm:

"At a time of victim competition and the reconstruction of fantasized tales, we will see that freedom of mind and historical work are necessary backfires against fires. fiery memories, especially in youth. "

This recent news recalls the delicate nature of the site which Emmanuel Macron is working on.

His ambition to

“reconcile memories”

is not foreign to his obsession with rebuilding a “national story” shared by all the children of France in 2021;

which passes, among other things, by the fight against separatism.

On colonization in general, and the war in Algeria in particular, the memorial enterprise is therefore a current work.

Emmanuel Macron knows the danger there is in recklessly shaking up this story.

Himself collided

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Source: lefigaro

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