General delegate of the Fondation du Pont-Neuf (think-tank) and author of numerous notable works, Frédéric Rouvillois has notably published “History of politeness, from the Revolution to the present day” (Flammarion, 2006), “History of snobbery” (Flammarion, 2008) and “The Invention of Progress, 1680-1730. At the origins of totalitarian thought” (Éditions du CNRS, 2011).
It is a singular thing to lose a very dear and very old person whose benevolent presence we had always felt and who had ended up becoming a part of ourselves - to the point of feeling lost without her, and a little orphan. .
A few months before being mown down by grapeshot at the very beginning of the 14th war, Charles Péguy devoted some of his most beautiful verses to the death of Saint Geneviève, patroness and protector of Paris:
“A whole people assembled watched her die
The bourgeois, the peasant, the herdsman and the herdsman,
Wept and were silent and saw her leave (…)
And the tough villagers...
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