Through Philippe Roudeillat
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On the night of Wednesday to Thursday April 21, the French historian Marc Ferro died at the age of 96 during the night.
Since then, the City of Saint-Germain-en-Laye, where he resided, sought a way to pay him homage. It is now done.
During the last municipal council, the municipality presented its plan to give its name to one of the two libraries in the municipality.
“A great historian, a great Saint-Germanois”
“He was not only a great historian, but a great Saint-Germanois. We wished to pay tribute to him, in agreement with his family, and we suggest that the multimedia library, which is located at the Jardins des arts, is henceforth called the Marc media library. Ferro. “
To emphasize the fact that the City is also “concerned about a feminization” of the names of public spaces and facilities, the elected representative recalled that the second Saint-German library bore the name of George Sand.
The deliberation presented by the municipality also proposed that the latter should also be affected by the change from “library” to “media library”.
One of the oppositions reacts
This project prompted Christophe Bentz, from the right-wing opposition group Audace pour Saint-Germain.
While specifying that he did not stand against the choice of Marc Ferro or George Sand, the latter indicated that “in principle” he would have liked “all elected officials to be consulted for the choice of the names of municipal buildings. “
We also have ideas. There is a symbolic dimension in choosing a name, but what is symbolic is also very political. We could also have proposed Michel Tournier, a Saint-Germanois, of illustrious letters who was a member of the Goncourt academy. “
To support its remark, the group chose to abstain.
The mayor of the town, Arnaud Péricard, wished to respond to the remark made by the elected opposition.
“He took part in community life, in cultural life …”
“We must not make controversy where there is none. It is a decision that the majority is proposing to you. You accept it, you abstain or you vote against it. Yes, Michel Tournier does not have quite the same life in Saint-Germain. He certainly passed his baccalaureate in Saint-Erembert, but Marc Ferro lived 40 years of his life. He actively participated in community life, in cultural life and of course through Marc Ferro, we think of his wife who for more than 40 years animated the theater club at the high school then at the Claude Debussy college and at Jeanne D’Albret. and who was still at the age of 97, I believe, a member of the board of directors. “
Apart from the 2 members of the right-wing opposition group Audace pour Saint-Germain, all elected officials voted for this deliberation.
An internationally recognized Saint-Germanois
The deliberation recalled that Marc Ferro was internationally recognized for his work on the 20th century, from the Great War to decolonization, including the Russian revolution and Vichy, as well as for his pioneering exploration of the image as a subject of history. The Saint-Germanois was the presenter of a very successful television program “Parallel History” on Arte. He is the author of numerous books, including The West before the Soviet Revolution (1980), The Truth about the Tragedy of the Romanovs (2012), The Clash of Islam (2002), The Black Book of Colonialism (2003) ), Pétain (1987), Cinema and History (1977).
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