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His spirit, oh so powerful, contrasted with his tiny figure." While the courtyard of honor of the Invalides is empty, at the end of the national tribute paid by Emmanuel Macron to Hélène Carrère d'Encausse, the deputy LR of the Manche Philippe Gosselin tries to paint in a few tender sentences the portrait of this "great lady". Like so many Frenchmen, he hardly knew her, but admired her from afar. "Madame THE perpetual secretary - she insisted on it," he slips mischievously, "embodied in a word the French spirit.
»Immortal. The great historian, a specialist in Russia, is in fact in the memories of academics, journalists or politicians, who, on the forecourt, exchange with emotion their praises and memories. Jean-Christophe Rufin, dismissed in favor of the Franco-Lebanese writer Amin Maalouf to succeed the historian as perpetual secretary of the Academy, is missing.
All welcome the "right words" of Emmanuel Macron. In military solemnity...
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