We will have to take more and more precautions to republish, as the Éditions Larousse have just done, the
History of France
by Jacques Bainville.
At a time when the Head of State wants to "deconstruct the history of France" and when his new Minister of Education wants
to "make immigration a central element of national history",
Bainville seems quite out of place.
Not a word about immigration in these six hundred pages to account for the work of the Capetians and their successors.
Here is a monument of the “national novel”, which is moreover monarchist, very little in tune with the times.
All the more reason to read or reread it.
The publisher has taken care to accompany this book with a very “proper” preface to explain and even apologize for it.
And the prefacer, Éric Alary, reminds us that Bainville is not a historian.
It is, as everyone knows, a journalist from
L'Action française
who held the foreign policy page in this newspaper with great lucidity.
He was not…
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