The American Military
Academy on the Champs-’’Élysées for the 14th of July
West Point to parade in Paris
Pg. 1
The starred flag will fly on the Champs-Elysées for the 14th
of July parade graced with the participation of a detachment from the military
academy at wWest pPoint, who, like their
French companions of Saint-Cyr, celebrate their bicentennial this year. Here is the “post card” of our supplement to the national holiday
to be read on pages 15-34.
(cCaption) tThe cadets of the US
military academy parade on the plain of Wwest Ppoint at the time of the ceremonies
celebrating the end of classes at which time ato which a delegation from Saint-Cyr was
invited for the bicentennial of both schools (ours will be from the 15th to the 21st
of June). The American delegation who
will parade in Paris will also be received at the military academy at
Saint-Cyr.
Pg. 15
From the fatherland without borders comes the temptation of nationalism
The events of September 11th 2001 renewed patriotic American fervour. In France, it is a nationalist fold which marked the arrival of the second head of state of the extreme right for the first time in a presidential election, last April 21st. Alain-Gérard Slama will analyse this phenomenon on pages 16 and 17.
For Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel, the idea of fatherland remains subjective. There are less than borders which define the fatherland such as membership or affiliation to a value system. An American citizen, Elie Wiesel sees in Israel his “spiritual fatherland” and in France his “cultural fatherland”. His interview can be read on pages 18 and 19.
On the following two pages, Gérard Guillot tells us of a very personal chronicle on the successes and failures which have inspired him, each in their own way, America and France, his “two loves” divided in the image in the song by Gainsbourg “I don’t love you anymore…”
“To be French means what?” that is the question posed in a Figaro Literature file, on the occasion of the release of the book by Patrick Weil on The history of the French nationality since the revolution. To be read on pages 22 to 24.
And finally, at the hazard of our national celebration supplement, we discover the opening, on the 14th of July, of a meeting/dating club unlike any others in New York, an article on the similarities between firefighters of Paris and those of New York and finally a journey to the heart of the France, in Beaujolais…
(Caption): the traditional 14th of July parade on
the Champs-Élysées is becoming more open and progressive: open to the women of
the National Guard and then the armies of the European Union. This year, it will also include a detachment
of the American military academy from West Point.
-translated by Kristl V. Dorschner
Research Assistant/Summer Intern
Dept of Chemistry
USMA at West Point