“” Un Unimaginable dream was achieved: the French flag floats in Stuttgart and Ulm, alongside the wonderful banners of our American and English brothers. That their sacrifices and that of the numerous troopers of the Red Army are without end engraved within the reminiscences and hearts of the schoolchildren of France ”, writes, this May 8, 1945, François Mauriac in Le Figaro.
But the author, much less lyrical, can be already addressed to those French individuals who had made the selection of Pétain and the Vichy regime, to which he tends a merciful hand: “Rejoice with us and with all of the peoples delivered from a monstrous servitude. Fremish with pleasure now that Europe, enslaved by murderers and torturers, has as soon as once more turn out to be the house of free males and that our eyes had been …
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