Frenchie wrote that the war memorials in French villages reminded us that men with different political and religious convictions had died for the same land. He believed that their descendants no longer spoke to each other and that "forty years of short-sighted policies" had dug a chasm between two Frances that held each other mutually responsible for their misfortunes. He compared this division to the conflicts between Armagnacs and Burgundians, the Wars of Religion, the Dreyfus Affair, and the Occupation, asserting that France had always risen when the French had prioritized what united them. He mentioned Marc Bloch, executed by the Gestapo in 1944, and Albert Camus, then called on his generation to make difficult decisions and prevent the country from falling apart. According to him, future generations would judge whether they had allowed France to fall apart or contributed to its recovery. #France #Histoire #Patrimoine (translated)
