"For several years, a popular movement from the depths of the country has opposed crude manipulations that seek to divert the history of France from the glory and honor that it has always followed," said the candidate of the Rassemblement national presidential election in his speech sent to the press.
"Some seek to + deconstruct + our homeland to describe a past that is unlike who we are or what we have experienced. Still others drown in a past so controversial that it brutalizes and divides when pride to be French should bring our people together, ”added the far-right official.
An allusion to Emmanuel Macron, whose "repentance repentance" she criticizes in his memorial work, and to his rival Eric Zemmour, who belies history when he asserts, for example, that Marshal Pétain saved Jews.
"Today, we must choose the meaning we want to give to the civilization that our ancestors built", according to Marine Le Pen, for whom "National history, that which is taught or erased, celebrated or denigrated, depends on our political choices ".
For her, "November 11, 1918 was, remains and must remain in our memories, a great victory for a people, a country and a civilization which united against the invasion, against fate, against the 'annihilation".
In this regard, she hoped that the Catholic and conservative general Edouard de Castelnau, military leader of the Great War then boss of the National Catholic Federation, be elevated to the title of Marshal of France, from which he was in her eyes "unjustly dismissed" in 1921 "for basely political reasons, because he was a fervent Catholic" and "ardent patriot".
The President of the Republicans Christian Jacob paid tribute to him, in a tweet, "to those who are no longer, those of 14, those who have lived the horror", to the Companions of the Liberation and to "those who are fighting today. hui and who fall, far from home. They are the honor of France ".
The environmental candidate Yannick Jadot expressed the wish, on Twitter, "that the tribute to Hubert Germain (the last Companion of the Liberation, editor's note) and the celebration of his fights for freedom, democracy and tolerance, against fascism , send the revisionists, the racists, the extreme right and those who are inspired by it into the dustbins of history! ".
The candidate and leader of the rebels Jean-Luc Mélenchon commemorated in Marseille where he is deputy "the victory of France and peace found" despite the "terrifying record" of the Great War.
"Like Jaurès, I do not forget that + capitalism carries war within it as the cloud carries a storm +", he added in a tweet.
The socialist candidate and mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo saw a "beautiful symbol" in the presence at the ceremonies of November 11 in Paris of the American vice-president Kamala Harris.
“The United States and France are steadfast allies and share this common history, the memory of the two world conflicts of the 20th century,” she tweeted.
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