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La France Goy, by Christophe Donner: the roots of evil

2021-10-27T14:20:02.414Z


CRITICAL - The author unveils a family saga in the anti-Semitic intellectual circles of the Belle Époque.


You never get bored reading Christophe Donner.

From the first pages of

La France goy

, a limpid style, short and well-paced chapters invite us on a breathtaking adventure - far from those writing workshops that some confuse with literature ... And what an adventure, since it is tis the disconcerting epic of French anti-Semitism at the heart of what was not yet called the Belle Époque.

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The author had already mentioned this end of the 19th century in

What men play

, a portrait of Joseph Oller, the inventor of horse racing and the Moulin Rouge.

This time, he placed at the heart of his story a much less sympathetic figure: that of Édouard Drumont whose name has more or less survived as an incarnation, and even as the creator of the anti-Semitic obsession that grew in France after the defeat. from 1870. The character is unattractive, ugly,

"corrupt, impious and ill-mannered"

, but carried by a hateful obsession and a volubility bordering on talent.

Delusional and seductive

It is besides,

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Source: lefigaro

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