In new "Michelet," François Reynaert , journalist, novelist and columnist for the Nouvel Observateur, reviewed, and in 526 pages, a history of France in his book finally dusted "Our ancestors the Gauls and other nonsense!
By giving a good slap in the odor of sanctity of the proponents of a national identity "Idyllic" born of a stuck mental masturbation myths, fantasies, truths and cons of childish allegories, François Reynaert wakes us up and invited everyone to take his place in the true history of this country.
And yes like France from its origins at a crossroads where men always and women of all backgrounds came together to write its history, with their talents or their egos, and also their "calculations", their thirst for profit and power, more rarely, their "generosity"! So far the sacred icon that you want us to revere, and if you'll pardon the approximation, very far from the image of France as "Marianne Gallic eternal, solemn, and white as a statue cemetery, down the grand staircase of history, illuminated by thousands of lights all mystical and surrounded by her Saints Boys and Girls!
Writing François Reynaert is a beautiful clarity, vivid and accurate, it is fascinating to read from one end to another of this monumental book. More cutting large chapters also shuffle which does not hinder the project from its initial purpose, that is to say, end all "nonsense" carried by the bucolic images we have of our own past! Images that maintains individually so naive or that we maintain for us on purpose ...
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| Louis XIV |
should not miss the chapters on Charles Martel, Charlemagne and those of Louis XIV, Code Black, and the Revolution and Napoleon, in short all the figures that over time turned into s'auréolant or covering himself with glory at a closer examination was woven all the misfortunes of a people, ours! "If Louis XIV was always with Napoleon, the French sovereign known as the world is also because of this feat: how many men can boast of having known and bend the world to their desire to have so blinded a time they succeeded in making him believe they were the only source of light? " (quote from the book of F Reynaert)
cornerstone of the whole system of religion is put in its place: "Christianity is simply an Eastern religion, just as the is Islam, and geography that became their only chance does the story. " (quote from the book of F Reynaert)
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| Henry III |
The chapter on "Henry III and homosexuality of his time "also sheds light on an issue that is dear to me: how through religion, man has twisted his neck to common sense and what nature normally occur without convulsions, because diversity is one of data essential for life, to castigate the attraction between these two men or two women towards each other, in a word how homosexuality has been condemned. This also recalls the excellent reviews Michel Onfray appeared in recent years on this particular issue in his treatise atheology.
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| Theophile de Viau |
Countless men and women throughout the ages and France have lost their lives in the most atrocious suffering this "inclination" natural religion admits only one profile for its public! François Reynaert rightly recalls the life of the poet Theophile de Viau (1590-1626), most now forgotten, which besides its sensitivity as a writer and the quality of his poetry, was the time to be a failure man who loved men ... He met her on a road "Tartuffe" that threatened to have his skin, but, exhausted, he did not long survive his odious trial; totally alienating trial: is it not terrible to be accused of what one is!
Homosexuality and libertinism in this age of iron in the gold of Louis XIII and Louis XIV led to be burned alive, you had to be like King Louis XIII or brother of the king as "Sir" (brother of Louis XIV ) to live free or almost his inclinations, which was completely banned and brutally to the good people ...
Everything in this book that can fascinate the curious, loving freedom and want to keep this thread a tumultuous history simple, clear and healthy to know that if the historical figures usurp the place which is theirs in the collective imagination, we must work hand so that France remains philosophically politically and now a veritable land of peace, construction of self and respect for all: "She (France) is a country where no judge or a citizen to his roots, nor his social nor the sound of his name, nor the god he prays or refuse to pray, but its ability to contribute to a better future for all. The task is large enough not to deprive from anyone. " (quote from the book of F Reynaert)
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| Fenelon |
Fenelon said already in his famous letter to Louis XIV, which is probably never reached its destination, many things that have remained true to France through the centuries and beyond us, so sadly true for a majority of humanity :
"But your people, you should love them as your children, and who have hitherto been so passionate you are starving. The cultivation of land is almost deserted towns and the countryside is depopulated, all trades languish and not feed more workers. All business is destroyed. So you have destroyed half of the real forces from within your state to make and defend vain conquests outside. Instead of taking money from these poor people, it should give alms and food. The whole of France is no longer a major hospital and sorry for insufficient funds. " (...)
"You love only your glory and your convenience. You report everything to you as if you were the God of the earth, and everything else had been created for you to be sacrificed. " (excerpts from the letter of Fénelon)
(see my article on the book "Remember": article and interview with François Reynaert )
BIBLIOGRAPHY Francis REYNAERT:
To finish with the 80, Calman-Lévy, 1989
On earth as in heaven, Calman-Lévy, 1990
A century ends, Calman-Lévy, 1994
catch cold air time, Calman-Lévy, 1997
Our years mad cows, Nile, 1999
Our friends journalists, Nile, 2002
Our straight friends, Nile, 2004
A golden dessert, Nile 2006
Planet of the saints, Hachette, 2007
Remember, Nil, 2008
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