How the reactionary proper handed over the historic present | EUROtoday

“You need to make isolates. The Puy du Fou is an isolate, one in all these refuges of civilization, withdrawn from the final decadence, which protect small ends of France. »» It is in these phrases, assures Philippe de Villiers, that the royalist and xenophobic author Jean Raspail thanked him for having produced an id refuge within the type of a historic theme park.

No one is extra conscious of the symbolic power of the dwell efficiency than the flagship essayist of the far proper, he who devotes the opening of his final bestseller, Memoricide (Fayard, 2024), on the ” rage “ that the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympic Games impressed him. An anti-Puy du Fou assumed by the creators, Thomas Jolly and the historian Patrick Boucheron.

The latter goals, in the summertime of 2027, to stage a nationwide story in sound and light-weight on the citadel of Chambord, which is neither militarist nor nationalist. His co-author, director Mohamed el-Khatib, observes: “We might not stay passive within the face of this try at cultural hegemony. »»

In truth, the historic spectacle has develop into the nice affair of the reactionaries, who nearly handed over this dynamic sector and keep the nationwide novel and the cult of a France “eldest girl of the Church”, carried by her topped heads and her saints.

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