Special envoy to the Allier
He comes to "
look to the future
".
But that does not prevent him from responding to those who regularly evoke the past.
Invited from France Bleu this Wednesday morning, Emmanuel Macron took advantage of his trip to Allier to respond to his future opponent Eric Zemmour.
“
Vichy sends us back (…) to a History.
In this regard, we just have to say to ourselves that we lived it, that it was written by historiographers, and that it is a good thing to stick to it
”, decided the Head of State, which intends to pay homage in the afternoon to the deportees, and to the parliamentarians who opposed the full powers for the collaborationist regime at the time.
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The charge is addressed to the nationalist candidate, who has continued to assert in recent years that Marshal Pétain would have "
saved French Jews
" during World War II.
"
Let us beware of manipulating, agitating and reviewing
" History, hammered the President of the Republic, believing that time had made it possible to build a "
historiographical truth
", and that "
we gain by respecting it and learn it
”.
"
Let us honor those who fought so that we can be a little more free
", he concluded, lambasting
"the spirit of defeat
" to which some gave in at the time.
And which he fears that some are still giving way today.
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