Author of numerous books, Robert Redekerrecently published L'Abolition de l'âme (Éditions du Cerf).
Even more than in the criminal and his crime, the unexpected in the terrible attack in Annecy lies in the personality of the hero who protected the children. Henri, this hero is the philosophically most significant character of this event, embodying "the wonderful visit" of which Marcel Carné made the title of one of his last films.
Catholic, believer, practitioner, former scout leader, walking pilgrim walking from cathedral to cathedral, passionate about the religious heritage of our country, this young man, who seems straight out of a book by Péguy, coagulates all the anthropological traits hated by the dominant ideology. An ordinary representative of French Catholicism, he represents the human type that the progressive galaxy wants to lock in the dustbin of history. It is that in the eyes of this ideology, this kind of person, which slows down the advance of modernity...
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