If we had taken Bainville seriously, we would not have experienced the disaster of June 1940. He sees it coming, he announced a quarter century in advance. He even ends his "History of the two peoples" (the French and German peoples), explaining that Germany is waiting for the right man who will crystallize the energies to trigger the next war.
This masterpiece of intelligence should be studied at school, so that schoolkids understand how events and their consequences are linked. It would have a dynamic view of history. And not only tedious series of anecdotes and wars that seem independent of each other.
