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The Queen is dead, long live the Queen (and now the King)!
A week after the disappearance at the age of 96 of Her Majesty Elizabeth II, the emotion does not weaken.
Nor in England, where our special correspondent Guyonne de Montjou was able to take the measure of it by questioning some of the thousands of Londoners of all origins and all social classes gathered in front of Buckingham Palace;
nor in France, where, as Guillaume Roquette very aptly reminds us in his editorial and the professor of constitutional law Frédéric Rouvillois in a brilliant analysis, "
France is not
a Republic, but it is
event”.
Who knows if, in the pain of our fellow citizens, there is not hidden a form of remorse for having put an end to a regime that did not only have faults?
Who knows if, by satisfying ourselves with a Fifth Republic that looks like a crowned Republic, we are not showing a form of attachment to a system that immerses its legitimacy in History and…
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