La fin de l'histoire

摘要

Nicolas sarkozy has often dwelt on the need for the French to know their history. He has required teachers to read out a letter written by a 17-year-old Communist resistance fighter to his mother just before his execution. He has proposed that every final-year primary pupil remember a child killed in the Holocaust He has studded his speeches with references to "crusades and cathedrals, human rights and the revolution", saying that "there cannot be a nation if there is not a common history."