In his
Memoirs from Beyond-Grave
, Chateaubriand portrayed the incomprehension of skeptics and weathervanes faced with the fidelity to the word given by a handful of die-hards who had passed through the storms of the Revolution and the Empire without ever vary or abjure their oaths.
“There are times when the elevation of the soul is a real infirmity;
no one understands it;
it passes for a sort of mental limit, for a prejudice, an unintelligent habit of education, a whim, a quirk which prevents you from judging things;
honorable imbecility perhaps, they say, but ilotism
(slavery, state of dependence, editor's note)
stupid, ”
underlines the writer
.
See also
The Last Square, the fighters of the impossible
We think of this tribute to those who have chosen self-sacrifice by reading, often with emotion,
Le Dernier Carré.
Fighters of honor and lost soldiers.
From Antiquity to the present day
(Perrin), collective work edited by our colleagues Jean-Christophe Buisson and Jean Sévillia.
In twenty-five short chapters, historians and journalists
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