The images come back every year in June.
Images of cheerful young people, complacently filmed by television cameras - especially young girls and representatives of "diversity" - who exult in the streets to celebrate their baccalaureate.
Images which please those concerned and their parents smile tenderly, but which appear ridiculous at best, at worst indecent to everyone else.
The ferry is over two centuries old.
Like most of the “granite masses” that made modern France, it is a creation of Napoleon.
In 1808, for the first year, there are 32 laureates.
To make the history of the bac is to make a history of France.
This is what Robert Colonna d'Istria understood and wanted.
Our historian is also a storyteller when he describes the pangs of the first woman received, the frauds and cheating, the results of the young Flaubert or even the failure of Zola.
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But behind the anecdote, there is politics.
The bac is a big political question.
Since
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