“Faithful without being fooled”, according to Michel Mohrt’s formula, do you have a passion from the heights for lost causes? A thousand emotional threads connect you to this touching old right who is so used to being beaten that when she loses a little less, she has the impression of having won? You are not part of it – or so recently that you yourself perceive your redneck ways of thinking – but madly in love with a young girl from this circle of (not so) deceased poets, you wish to do good impression at the table when you are received at his parents’ house and vaguely feel that you do not have the codes?
Accelerated maintenance training
Arnaud Florac, contributor well known to readers of BVand Romée de Saint Céran (designer) obligingly change, for the space of a book titled Minimum education (at Magnus), Baroness Staffe and Nadine de Rothschild to provide you with accelerated maintenance training. Please note, the aim is not to make you want to put your elbows on the table or use a knife to cut your salad. Here, we introduce you to this immaterial education which is not learned at school – especially not the school of 2023 -, but which is transmitted in the family crucible and which signs that you “are” part of it or not. “I couldn’t marry someone who doesn’t know Jean-Pax Méfret”recently declared, ingenuous and peremptory, a young girl of 15 in my kitchen.
Of Jean-Pax Méfret, precisely, we are talking here: “We cannot be at all interested in the reactionary landscape if we do not know Jean-Pax. We could even say, irreverently paraphrasing Marc Bloch, that there are two kinds of men: those who find Johnny vulgar, those who find Jean-Pax fascist. »
This sort of love dictionary (around fifty chapters in total), like all anthologies, is subjective. This is what gives it its baroque charm – the Latin mass next to James Bond… – and the little surprises: I would not have included Fanny Ardant, whose long neck and haughty head posture make promises of ability to rise above the mass they do not hold. I would have swapped Céline for Anouilh, Arsène Lupine for Cyrano de Bergerac, Dominique Venner for Gustave Thibon. We may also be surprised to find no allusion to Puy du Fou, the Chartres pilgrimage, non-contract schools or scouting. But you have to leave the door open for a future volume, don’t you think?
Eyes in the rearview mirror without losing sight of the front window
We will admire the skill in evoking General de Gaulle, an explosive subject if ever there was one: for many years, he too could have been the subject of a drawing by Caran d’Ache: “They talked about it. » We can say that the man destroyed the unity of the right and dispersed it like a puzzle, according to Audiard’s famous formula, another essential entry in this book.
There we find the great Raspail (who passed away in 2020) and the unjustly little-known Vladimir Volkoff (who left in 2005), whose literary monuments (The Camp of the Saints or The Closure for the other) have not aged a bit. Normal, since they were prophetic. One day, justice will inevitably be done to these two buried giants who shared the talent of being cheerfully apocalyptic.
This anthology, and we must salute it, avoids a pitfall, that of sinking into the c’est-mieuxavantism which is sometimes a nihilism and goes hand in hand with a fruitless despair: No future. Arnaud Florac often has his eyes in the rearview mirror, but does not lose sight of the front window, with the clear path that winds.
He intends, on the contrary, to exorcise this old temptation: “The hussars were nostalgic for the pre-war period. Some people are nostalgic for the hussars today. This sweet sadness is the slow poison of the reactions. It’s tolerable like a family demon but it should definitely not become a goal in itself. »
In concluding his evocation of Penfentenyo and Stauffenberg, the author hypothesizes: “All these men who put their heads to the end of their ideas had children. A lot of children, we can objectively say that. It’s probably a virtuous circle: by multiplying the little pairs of eyes looking at them, these dads, fallible like everyone else, unconsciously forced themselves, even more, not to fall from their pedestal. » The author states, “good manners are punk”. This book too. Those who appreciate – and there are many BV – the sharp, squeaky and effective style of Arnaud Florac will make it their bedside book.
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