If history can shed light on the present, it can also devour and confiscate it, by pushing the men of one era to relive the quarrels of previous ones, which dereal political life, and even make it spectral. We have seen this in recent weeks, while the obsessive and terribly disembodied references to the Second World War saturate the public space, as if suddenly, France was doomed to relive, at least in a theatrical and parodic way, the divisions of that time, eight decades of which take us away. Let us add, since it is necessary, that there is something absurd in placing the figure of Marshal Pétain at the heart of the presidential election when all the serious candidates, declared or not, claim to be do not distort their words,of the Gaullist epic to the point of even claiming to be part of a party, like the RPR, which wanted to continue it long after the General's death.
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