We were done with all that.
With this past gone.
We were at peace with our neighbors and with ourselves.
Our peaceful democracy, as President Giscard d'Estaing said, knew only the picrocholine wars of parties and ideas or those of business and commerce.
War and civil war were the others in the distance.
And then, from
Charlie
to the Bataclan, from a priest killed in his church to a teacher in front of his school, France rediscovered the curse of bloody streets and torn bodies.
The great Algerian writer Boualem Sansal explained to us that the Algerian civil war of the 1990s began like this.
We preferred to cover our ears and look away.
But the idea of civil war travels through us in spite of ourselves.
To read also:
Éric Zemmour: "France, land of violence and homeland of civil war"
Guillaume Barrera's work is an indubitable sign of this.
Of course, with his head on the block, our historian would deny it.
The University and the media do not allow this kind of daring.
He is only looking for
"the driving principle
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