The
Memoirs
of Jean Monnet are being reissued.
His circle of admirers were upset at the accusations made by Philippe de Villiers in a recent book.
The Vendéen made the Charentais an employee paid on the dollars of the White House, as formerly the Communists accused Raymond Aron of being paid by the propaganda services of the CIA.
As far as Aron is concerned, this kind of slander made in the heat of the moment during the Cold War can be excused.
But to confuse Monnet's involvement in the European project today with an airborne operation from Washington is a culpable amalgamation.
“It was painful to be told that it was a venal character who had lowered France”
, creaks his biographer, Éric Roussel, who signs here the afterword of the book.
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A Monnet Institute was therefore created to defend the life and work of the first honorary citizen of the European Union, of which his grandson, Jean-Marc Lieberherr, is the president.
Its publisher was...
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