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In his new book, the former diplomat brilliantly refutes the thesis of the “diktat” imposed on Germany by France after the First World War.
By Julien Peyron
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VSHow many times has Gérard Araud heard the story of the interwar period and the rise of Nazism summed up in France’s greed at the time of the Treaty of Versailles? On the sidelines of international summits, at dinners in town in Washington or New York, the former ambassador, columnist at the Point, is always confronted with this discourse. “Even among the most Francophile Americans, scratch a little and you discover that they more or less share these prejudices which, already, animate Roosevelt against our country. » This is how history is written by the victors, and, at the end of the Second World War, our country is not really one, he says.
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