“That Jordan Bardella dares to quote Marc Bloch is an outrage to all the victims of France, which collaborated with the Nazis” | EUROtoday

DIn a letter addressed to the Minister of the Interior, Laurent Nuñez, from the European Parliament in Strasbourg on October 21, Jordan Bardella as soon as once more assaults foreigners current on French soil, repeating the stigmatizing rhetoric cast for a very long time by his celebration. We vigorously condemn this xenophobia which distorts the political mission of the French nation: for the reason that Revolution, it has been outlined as a neighborhood of residents united by shared values, not by the exclusion of foreigners.

But on this letter, the president of the National Rally goes additional, trying to use the immense medievalist Marc Bloch, former professor on the University of Strasbourg and co-founder of the Annales college: “As Marc Bloch, historian and hero of the Resistance, to whom the nation will pay homage by welcoming him to the Pantheon on June 16, 2026, wrote: “Our people deserve to be trusted and taken into confidence.” These phrases resonate powerfully as we speak. »

L‘Strange Defeat [paru pour la première fois en 1946] just isn’t a group of pious quotes from which to attract in keeping with the wants of the second. It is an implacable indictment, a ebook of resistance written through the summer season of 1940 in opposition to Marshal Pétain and all those that would collaborate with the Nazis.

If Jordan Bardella had learn it, he would have discovered, a couple of sentences earlier than the one he quotes, these horrible and sumptuous phrases: “I hope, in any case, that we nonetheless have blood to shed: even when it have to be that of beings who’re pricey to me (I’m not speaking about my very own to which I don’t connect a lot worth). For there isn’t a salvation with out part of sacrifice; nor any nationwide freedom that may be full, if we’ve not labored to beat it ourselves. »

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