With the haughty appearance of a grand bourgeois, a contemporary patrician and the stature of moral guarantor of a left that has become voiceless, Robert Badinter, who also knew how to be charming and charming, will have kept until the end a voice which carries, above the melee.
And all the more precious because it was rare.
To discover
PODCAST - Listen to the Le Figaro Politique club with Yves Thréard
A singular voice too, sometimes grandiloquent.
But always using a precise, balanced verb.
As if each word was weighed against his desire to be scrupulously equanimous;
as if he was concerned to restore as much as possible the diversity of human fabric and the infinite
"complexity"
of history, while taking into account the fluctuations of memory.
The former Minister of Justice, whose name will forever remain linked to the abolition of the death penalty in 1981 (but who was also at the origin of the law abolishing the offense of homosexuality in 1982), readily recalled
“that we do not make history with memory alone.
I have lived too much legal life not to know…
This article is reserved for subscribers.
You have 92% left to discover.
Flash sale
-70% on digital subscription
I ENJOY IT
Already subscribed?
Log in