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Everyone knows the moving story of this work, written by Marc Bloch after the defeat of 1940, published at the Liberation after he himself, a resistance fighter, was shot in 1944. It is a scalpel analysis of the mediocrity of the leaders military, the unpreparedness of the army, but above all the decomposition of the French elites, political, technocratic, economic in the face of rising dangers at the end of the 1930s. It is not possible to launch today in an in-depth analysis of the DNA of the French upper classes, although I have long believed that the defeat of the Fronde leading to the confinement of the aristocracy in Versailles following a very considered choice by Louis XIV created a behavior of dependence and weakness of the upper classes in the face of…
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