Eric Anceau teaches contemporary history at Sorbonne University. He is a specialist in the state, powers and relations between the people and the elites. Among his latest books:
Les Élites françaises des Lumières au grand confinement
(Passés Composés, 2020) and
Secularism, a principle.
From Antiquity to the Present
(Passés Composés, 2022).
History is a French passion.
In our country, a President of the Republic must speak to the French about history and the first of them, Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte, had opened the way by writing a biography of Charlemagne and a comparative history of the revolutions of 1688 and of 1830, even before reaching the Élysée, in 1848.
Emmanuel Macron has not escaped the rule since he saw a national destiny.
As a young minister, he spoke on the subject, from 2015, in an interview granted to the weekly
Le 1,
then in the spring and summer of 2016, on the occasion of the Johannine celebrations of Orléans and a visit to Puy-du-Fou on the…
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