Jérémie Gallon is a partner and managing director for Europe at the geopolitical consulting firm McLarty Associates and a lecturer at Sciences Po. He has published "Henry Kissinger, the European" with Gallimard.
LE FIGARO. - Henry Kissinger was "one of the few contemporary figures to have written history," you write in your book. What does this have to do with it: its time, its character?
Jérémie GALLON. – Henry Kissinger was one of the giants of the twentieth century. If he wrote history, it was first and foremost because he was a being of exceptional intellectual and human density. The man who joined the White House in 1969 had already faced many tragedies and failures. From the age of fifteen, he had to flee Nazi Germany in fear. Thirteen members of his family perished in the Holocaust, and it was in the uniform of the American army that he returned to fight and denazify the regions where he grew up. After the war, the young teacher he had become still had to fight...
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