la tragédie que nous vivons

“we are pitifully gathered today, just a few of us, to ask only, without yet trying for anything more, that on one solitary dot on the globe a handful of innocent victims be spared.”

Albert Camus.
"Call for a Civil Truce,” a 1956 conference in Algeria

 http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/sunday-in-paris?intcid=mod-yml

Houdon, Voltaire, de Gaulle, Houellebecq, Trolls

On n'arrete pas Voltaire.

If Voltaire were alive today, and living in the United States, he would be denounced for being "a troll."

(another dead white man)

-General Charles DeGaulle en 1968 a propos de l'arrestation de Jean-Paul Sartre pendant les emeutes de mai,

http://www.lacritiqueparisienne.fr/59/59voltaire.pdf
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Paul_Sartre
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/08/books/review/michel-houellebecqs-submission.html?_r=0