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The "cancel culture" with historians Henry Laurens and Pierre Vesperini

“The Imposed Past”, by Henry Laurens and “What to do with the past?

Reflections on cancel culture”, by Pierre Vesperini.

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By: Pierre-Edouard Deldique Follow

Pierre-Édouard Deldique receives in the magazine Idées, for the theme "cancel culture" or "cancellation culture" in French: Henry Laurens, historian, holder of the chair of Contemporary History of the Arab World at the Collège de France, who has just written

The Imposed Past

(Fayard) and Pierre Vesperini, historian, specialist in Greek and Latin Antiquity, author of

What to do with the past?

Reflections on cancel culture

(Fayard).

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