“Twenty years of” Notepad “, closer to reality”: the farewell of Ivan Rioufol to the readers of Figaro

"Who will dare to disrupt our blocked society?" 

: I asked the question on March 29, 2002, opening my first “Notepad”.

Twenty years later, I convinced myself of the answer: only the exasperated French, finally heard and respected, will move a System disconnected from reality, cut off from people, no longer producing ideas.

(…)

, wrote Michelet about the French Revolution.

It is this world of the forgotten and the humble that inspired me, much more than the flambards and the givers of lessons.

, wrote old Fontenelle.

This advice will have guided my weekly columns, filled with “little true facts” and pieces of living history.

Retirement arriving, I chose to leave the place.

Here is my latest “Notepad”.

“Sixteen years old is an advanced age for a chronicle

,” said my illustrious predecessor, François Mauriac, in one of his “Notepads”…

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