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"Is History a compass for times of crisis?"

2021-10-12T17:44:49.725Z


FIGAROVOX / RENCONTRE - Far from television sets, the debate organized on the occasion of the grand prix for historical biography approached with a rare height of view this elusive thing that is History.


For the occasion, History had put on its thirty-one, dressed in a large H. The star of the evening, Thursday, October 7, in the conference room of the communication agency Image 7, it was she.

Five winners of the grand prix for political biographies, created with the municipality of Le Touquet in 2007, debated on the theme

"How does history enlighten us in times of crisis?"

», Event organized in partnership with

Le Figaro

.

Were seated on the velvet sofas Bénédicte Vergez-Chaignon, author of

Pétain

(Perrin), Didier Le Fur, distinguished for his work

Diane de Poitiers

(Perrin), François Kersaudy, celebrated for

Winston Churchill - The power of the imagination

(Tallandier ), Patrice Gueniffey, awarded for his monumental

Bonaparte

(Gallimard) And Julian Jackson, the most Francophile of British historians, celebrated last year with

De Gaulle - Une Certain Idea de la France

(Seuil).

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Very far from the television sets between followers of the practice of the ideological punch,

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Source: lefigaro

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