Can we heal injured memories?
Can we repair the mistakes made on behalf of France?
The risk is always explosive when the political authority prides itself on rereading history.
Of all the presidents of the Fifth Republic, Emmanuel Macron is the one who has rubbed shoulders the most with the exercise.
Although he is the youngest of all.
Or precisely because it is devoid of any personal historical memory.
Born almost thirty years after the end of the Second World War and fifteen years after the end of the Algerian war, he knows that he is leading a country which is not rid of all its ghosts.
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The exercise is perilous by nature, but President Macron must be recognized for having broken with the facilities of candidate Macron.
No doubt it is even because he drags like a sticking plaster his campaign blunders on the absence of French culture or the unequivocal assimilation of colonization to a
"crime against humanity"
that once at the Elysee Palace. he strove to immerse himself in
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