Heresy in Twenty-First Century France (PDF Download)
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A schoolboy born during the Second World War war is considered highly gifted both in the sciences and in letters, and sees a very promising future opening up before him.
Fate is to decide otherwise.
He enters adolescence learning that his father was shot dead in obscure circumstances one day in April 1944. And the First World War had already killed his father’s father.
Then other deaths in the family weigh on the boy.
The time comes for painful, piercing questions. What is the meaning of these deaths, these wars and, in particular, these Franco-German carnages?
Why in 1870, 1914, 1939, were so many Frenchmen sent to their deaths in order to kill Germans?