I bought this new edition because I laminated so that the previous pages in detached. Like all books Winock, it is bright, easy to read, with caring judgments Christian Democrat, the editorial board of the journal Esprit changing aggression which generations of Marxists Ferret in 1965, and fall of the USSR in 1991 have imposed more restraint although the importance of economic factors is still justified without pompous accents of "historical materialism" and "class struggle". This book is essential to understand what particular in France the importance given to writers and even international long radiation despite weakening "materialist" of France for 75 years, like a light extinguished star that still manages thanks to the slow speed of the radiation. Even in France, it seems that this heritage is no longer transmitted by the school. This is what appeared from about a born imam and educated in public schools in France to the ferry, which stated in clear French during a Finkielkraut emission together with Gilles Kepel, devoted to spirit of January 11, freedom of thought and secularism that he had never heard the Voltaire College and Calas case or Zola and the Dreyfus affair. A dizzying abyss that perhaps never will fill oeuvre by Winock. I regret that the 1995 edition has been enriched since 2000 when globalization is accelerating. I wish I had read the spell would make Winock oeuvre by Houellebecq, a species of Flaubert tells the sentimental education of the generation of 1968, which is now retiring. I do not understand it does not offer a digital version of the book when it is the case of many other works of Winock republished. This is very convenient when you have more room in their libraries.