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“
You had your portraits on the walls of our cities
Menacing shaggy beard and night blacks
The poster that looked like a bloodstain
Because pronouncing your names is difficult
He was looking for an effect of fear on passers-by.
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These verses from Aragon, set to music and sung by Léo Ferré, rocked my adolescence.
And I can't reread Manouchian Michel's testamentary letter to his wife Mélinée without tears coming to my eyes.
I therefore followed with emotion and gratitude the entry into the Pantheon of Armenian spouses, “French preferably”.
This ceremony filled a gap.
It was time for the unanimous nation to solemnly thank the fighters of the ME.
But, as is often the case, the tribute was spoiled by the comments.
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The celebration of immigrant resistance fighters cannot be dissociated from the current context, that of a country racked by xenophobia fueled by the far right.
Rarely a pantheonization…
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