Qu'est ce Que La France?

After the volume entitled What Literature Can Do, this collection of essays first heard on the radio program ' Répliques ' focuses on France and represents an essential overview of the state of the country. Eminent researchers, politicians and writers discuss the vital question of "What is France?".The selected programs and contributors are as follows: Republic and philosophy (Marcel Gauchet, Marie-Claude Blais) Is there a French fascism ? (René Rémond, Zeev Sternhell) To be French today (Pierre Nora, Paul Thibaud) Secularity (Lionel Jospin, Maurice Agulhon) Michelet and the historians (François Furet, Jacques Le Goff) France, a catholic Country ? (Danièle Hervieu-Léger, Henri Tincq) France and the Jews (Michel Winock, Paul Thibaud) Mitterrand or the passion for memory (Hubert Védrine, Christophe Barbier) Is there a Black question in France ? (Stephen Smith, Françoise Vergès) French gallantry (Mona Ozouf, Claude Habib) Immigration issues (Patrick Weil, Michèle Tribalat) A MUST for any Francophile reader throughout the world !