These places that make the France
of François-Guillaume Lorrain: stroll in these famous places where we sometimes lost track
We must beware of overly nostalgic readings of our past. The history of France is a
“big store of grudges”
, noted Emmanuel Berl (the remark sometimes attributed to Bernanos). What does it matter! Because this violent tear - which structures our "national novel" since at least the Wars of Religion - has left on our soil a magnificent testimony of stones and prowess, as if architecture had come to subsume the tragic. The journalist and historian François-Guillaume Lorrain had the excellent idea of reviewing
“these places that made France”
and he offers us in this book, which was a great success (he did it again with
Les Autres France,
just as pleasant to read), a fascinating stroll on the
“Strongholds of our history”
.
This walk begins with Saint-Denis, one of the oldest testimonies in our history since it dates back to the Merovingians.
Today, the author finds himself grappling with a multiculturalism that already made people say poetically
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