An intelligent thesis, but one weakness: the French monarchy has never had imperial vocation

"The historian's task is essentially to shorten If it is not shortened, -. And the remark is not new - it would take so long to tell the story she has to be . "

Eric Zemmour built a theory of the construction of the history of France, "that of being recognized as the heir to Rome, his state, his language, his unique way of assimilating foreigners - both haughty and equal - and even his way to impose peace in Europe. "

If England was our Carthage, Germany (Prussia) was his most faithful student, imitator as brilliantly exposed in Girard "Complete Clausewitz ', cited work and clearly exposed by Eric Zemmour.

The brilliant remarks succeed:

- "The" nation "German view by the French elite, is for two centuries a projection of me on a French Germany turned into an ideal France The roles are reversed, but the mimetic desire remains.." (P. 90).

- After Waterloo, "Madame de Staël glorified the first general a century (Wellington), where Napoleon had lived She opened the ball of the French liberal and progressive intellectuals who never ceased since then to seek a foreign master, he. either English, German, Russian, American. And tomorrow, Chinese, Indian, Arabic? " (P. 80)

- "Contrary to what Montesquieu wrote, and what liberal theorists claim our [Ricardian] since then, it is not the gentle trade which made the fortune of the UK, but the relentless military defense trade. " (P.67)

- "The racist prioritizes individuals based on their race, the French think all foreigners, whatever their origin, race, religion, can access the nirvana of French civilization attitude a bit arrogant, xenophobic even, but. no racist. Racist, like the English, considered an Indian, despite all his efforts, will never be able to speak with the accent of Oxford. "

Provocateur, Zemmour is worthwhile when it expresses an ideology of miscegenation replaced under assimilation, vector of our history.

"On the ruins of assimilation, the cult of miscegenation was built as the inverted mirror of purebred Creolization bring us universal reconciliation Besides this discourse is historically false -.. Miscegenation between Indians and conquistadors did not prevented massacres and looting -.. Thus it is wrong intellectually as noted by Pierre-André Taguieff pertinently, the "mandatory" miscegenation is often associated with the exaltation of diversity, two antagonistic concepts The word "race" has become in our society . the supreme taboo, like sex in the nineteenth century one is repressed because we would like as long as it does not exist, but he obsesses us The Puritan see sex everywhere. Modern anti-racist sees racists everywhere. " (P.234)

Of course, Zemmour is not opposed to miscegenation as his detractors accuse him. He denounced the ideology of miscegenation (reminiscent of the "melting pot" American) that degenerates into communalism, the Company poison, anti-history of France.

Zemmour concludes that "the Romanization is slowing, assimilation is no longer in season, francization, to quote General de Gaulle, remains down" (p.251).

Reinventing a project for France so he goes well by the return to its universal vocation, that of heir to Rome?

I will answer that the thesis of Zemmour is interesting, but that this universal vocation was born in the backyard of the Ile de France, embodied in the monarchy saved by Joan of Arc, very far from the imperial vision was that of the Roman Empire (called "holy") on the other side of the Rhine probably taken by the United States. France has no imperial vocation. On the contrary. Our Nation, by its size, reassures "small" Nations will draw its allies, will promote a true citizen project.

Rome without the Empire, is it conceivable?