In the context of the Paris bombings trial, you should read the excellent
Letter from a hussar of the republic
, the autobiography of Didier Lemaire, this lucid and courageous professor of philosophy who dares to speak the truth about the way in which he was literally persecuted in his school, then in his town, Trappes, by the Islamists.
It is the cry of alarm from a good man, from a colleague who should be supported in his fight more ardently than it is today.
Everyone will understand by reading it how essential it would be to teach in our schools the exact meaning of our republican conception of secularism.
However, this is not as simple as you think.
In these troubled times when scientific and historical culture has given way in our policies to electoral sociology and "communication", the word seems to have lost its meaning and its coherence.
So let's get things straight.
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Didier Lemaire: "In Trappes, we are no longer in France"
As Jules Ferry already insisted in his famous
Letter to Teachers
, the
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