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Jean Daniel
De Gaulle and Algeria
(1986)
279 pages
Editions du Seuil
(240x155)mm
"A quarter of a century after the event, at the request of his friends at Editions du Seuil, Jean Daniel holds up this mirror to us, reflecting the great dialogue between de Gaulle and Algeria. Perhaps a biographer of the General, who has just studied this case with the benefit of hindsight and the insight of a rich historiography, might be allowed to salute here an unusual example of immediate lucidity. Countless documents have been published since then. Many key figures have testified. And several excellent books have appeared on the subject. We know more. But, twenty-five years later, the journalist's portrait retains its freshness and brilliance. With the irresistible force of immediate perception, of what was seen, felt, and suffered." Jean Lacouture, passionately connected to Algeria, like Camus, who was his friend, and a privileged interlocutor in Paris, Tunis, and Algiers for the protagonists of the drama, Jean Daniel was one of its most demanding and best-informed witnesses. It was then in L'Express, published by Françoise Giroud, Pierre Viansson-Ponté, Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, and in the "Bloc-notes" by François Mauriac, a close friend of Camus and Pierre Mendès France, that his reports could be read every week. Preceded by a personal reflection now permitted by the passage of time, the selection of texts found here vividly reconstructs what Jean Daniel calls the "impetuous hand-to-hand combat between the General and Algeria."
De Gaulle and Algeria
(1986)
279 pages
Editions du Seuil
(240x155)mm
"A quarter of a century after the event, at the request of his friends at Editions du Seuil, Jean Daniel holds up this mirror to us, reflecting the great dialogue between de Gaulle and Algeria. Perhaps a biographer of the General, who has just studied this case with the benefit of hindsight and the insight of a rich historiography, might be allowed to salute here an unusual example of immediate lucidity. Countless documents have been published since then. Many key figures have testified. And several excellent books have appeared on the subject. We know more. But, twenty-five years later, the journalist's portrait retains its freshness and brilliance. With the irresistible force of immediate perception, of what was seen, felt, and suffered." Jean Lacouture, passionately connected to Algeria, like Camus, who was his friend, and a privileged interlocutor in Paris, Tunis, and Algiers for the protagonists of the drama, Jean Daniel was one of its most demanding and best-informed witnesses. It was then in L'Express, published by Françoise Giroud, Pierre Viansson-Ponté, Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, and in the "Bloc-notes" by François Mauriac, a close friend of Camus and Pierre Mendès France, that his reports could be read every week. Preceded by a personal reflection now permitted by the passage of time, the selection of texts found here vividly reconstructs what Jean Daniel calls the "impetuous hand-to-hand combat between the General and Algeria."
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Description
Jean Daniel
De Gaulle and Algeria
(1986)
279 pages
Editions du Seuil
(240x155)mm
"A quarter of a century after the event, at the request of his friends at Editions du Seuil, Jean Daniel holds up this mirror to us, reflecting the great dialogue between de Gaulle and Algeria. Perhaps a biographer of the General, who has just studied this case with the benefit of hindsight and the insight of a rich historiography, might be allowed to salute here an unusual example of immediate lucidity. Countless documents have been published since then. Many key figures have testified. And several excellent books have appeared on the subject. We know more. But, twenty-five years later, the journalist's portrait retains its freshness and brilliance. With the irresistible force of immediate perception, of what was seen, felt, and suffered." Jean Lacouture, passionately connected to Algeria, like Camus, who was his friend, and a privileged interlocutor in Paris, Tunis, and Algiers for the protagonists of the drama, Jean Daniel was one of its most demanding and best-informed witnesses. It was then in L'Express, published by Françoise Giroud, Pierre Viansson-Ponté, Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, and in the "Bloc-notes" by François Mauriac, a close friend of Camus and Pierre Mendès France, that his reports could be read every week. Preceded by a personal reflection now permitted by the passage of time, the selection of texts found here vividly reconstructs what Jean Daniel calls the "impetuous hand-to-hand combat between the General and Algeria."
De Gaulle and Algeria
(1986)
279 pages
Editions du Seuil
(240x155)mm
"A quarter of a century after the event, at the request of his friends at Editions du Seuil, Jean Daniel holds up this mirror to us, reflecting the great dialogue between de Gaulle and Algeria. Perhaps a biographer of the General, who has just studied this case with the benefit of hindsight and the insight of a rich historiography, might be allowed to salute here an unusual example of immediate lucidity. Countless documents have been published since then. Many key figures have testified. And several excellent books have appeared on the subject. We know more. But, twenty-five years later, the journalist's portrait retains its freshness and brilliance. With the irresistible force of immediate perception, of what was seen, felt, and suffered." Jean Lacouture, passionately connected to Algeria, like Camus, who was his friend, and a privileged interlocutor in Paris, Tunis, and Algiers for the protagonists of the drama, Jean Daniel was one of its most demanding and best-informed witnesses. It was then in L'Express, published by Françoise Giroud, Pierre Viansson-Ponté, Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, and in the "Bloc-notes" by François Mauriac, a close friend of Camus and Pierre Mendès France, that his reports could be read every week. Preceded by a personal reflection now permitted by the passage of time, the selection of texts found here vividly reconstructs what Jean Daniel calls the "impetuous hand-to-hand combat between the General and Algeria."
Réf :
#309642
