From the height of his 90 years, dressed in a blue shirt matching his eyes, Pierre Nora still has a sparkling look and a mischievous air.
Both seductive and profound.
Ten years his junior, adorned with his eternal pocket vest, Régis Debray displays a sardonic and blasé air.
A grump, which sometimes lights up with a perched, almost childish laugh.
We brought together the last two Mohicans of the French intelligentsia in the reserve on rue Gaston-Gallimard, home to the prestigious publishing house of the same name.
Here they are the kings.
Pierre Nora has been an editor there for 57 years.
Régis Debray has published 35 books there.
In the office of the instigator of
Places of Memory,
the decor is basic.
White walls without any decoration.
A faded leather sofa, a somewhat lame floor lamp furnish the room, with a large table, without a computer, filled with books and manuscripts.
We sit there, the two friends seated opposite us like schoolboys in the principal's office.
The…
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