The historian and first woman at the head of the French Academy Hélène Carrère d'Encausse died this Saturday, August 5 at 94 years old. "We all had a real admiration and affection for her," reacted on LCI academician and writer Jean-Marie Rouart. "She was someone I admired, but loved because she had an exceptional destiny," he continued, hailing the past of Hélène Carrère d'Encausse, born stateless. "She joins all those people, all these writers like Henry Troyat or Kessel who basically loved the France and the idea of France. She was French in her tolerance, in her universalism, in this idea of always wanting to achieve through her work a form of excellence."
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I obviously feel a great sadness, it was an incomparable personality, "responded this Saturday evening the former Minister of Culture Jack Lang on BFM TV. "She was a great lady of letters and arts. It gave this French Academy a luster and an incomparable brilliance, he continued. She was a very serious, meticulous, courageous and committed woman."
The president of the Hauts-de-France region Xavier Bertrand hailed a woman who "all her life has made the France and the French language a fight." Immortally, perpetually," he wrote on Twitter, renamed X.
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She wanted to be called Madame the perpetual Secretary, "commented for her part the CEO of Fayard Editions Isabelle Saporta, "Hélène Carrère d'Encausse was an exceptional woman, an author of genius," she continued.