Title : French but not Gaulish - Foreigners who made France - Daniel Cohn-Bendit, Patrick Lemoine - Book

Summary :

An original and subjective history of France from the 20th century to the present day, seen through the prism of its famous foreigners.

"I was born on April 4, 1945, in Montauban to German parents, who waited more than six months to declare my arrival in the world – too late! This made me stateless, who grew up in the 15th arrondissement of Paris with the last Black Hussars of the Republic, was a die-hard supporter of Raymond Kopa's French team in 1958, before arriving in Frankfurt and taking German nationality... to avoid military service. Having returned to France for my studies, I was expelled in May 1968 – a residence ban lifted ten years later.
Since then, my life has been a kind of bridge between Germany and France, and in 2015, I obtained the right to also become French. Being able to now play with both jerseys basically corresponds quite well to my state of mind: France owes a lot to its foreigners, without whom its history would have been completely different. Thus, it is also the Great History that is drawn through them: because all of them arrived at the whim of political, economic, scientific, cultural... and even sporting movements.
This is the journey that this four-handed book traces, stopping here with an Émile Zola passing away at the dawn of the Belle Époque, there at the coronation in Cannes of Rachid Bouchareb's Indigènes; and, always, alongside these men and women who, coming from elsewhere, have for one hundred and fifty years put their hands to the glorious and laborious work of a country that is being written.

• EAN: 9782221260944
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