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Is there no end to books on the ‘end of France’?

21 April 2018

9:00 AM

21 April 2018

9:00 AM

Here is a detail that says a lot. In the French translation of this latest book by the Israeli historian Shlomo Sand, the title was followed by a question mark. In the English translation there isn’t one. The author is making a statement, not asking a question. The French intellectual is dead, finished, a thing of the past.

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