In
France, those who set a fire are left to rest, and those who sound the alarm are persecuted. "
One could not help but think of this sentence from Chamfort in view of the outraged reactions to the tribune of some twenty retired generals published last week in
Valeurs contemporaine
.
This formula of "retired generals" irresistibly recalled the apostrophe of General de Gaulle in response to the Algiers putsch of 1961, all the more so because - chance or unconscious necessity?
- the publication in the newspaper dated April 21, the anniversary of this putsch.
Even if the authors' intentions are pure and their text was deposited with the weekly a week before, we could continue this comparison made by our collective unconscious.
Sixty years ago, the putschists wanted to keep French Algeria while General de Gaulle advocated the independence of Algeria so that, he said to Alain Peyrefitte,
"my village is not called Colombey les
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