The grandson of General de Gaulle, whom Zemmour claims, condemns his comments on Pétain – the HuffPost

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POLITICS – For the general’s grandson, Pierre de Gaulle, Eric Zemmour does not “know history”. One more correction for the putative candidate and author of French destiny who delights in analyzes of the History of France.

LCI guest on Sunday November 7, the descendant of the June 18 man of the call sharply criticized the words of the former polemicist held at the end of September on the role of Marshal Pétain and Vichy on the protection of French Jews. “I say that Vichy protected the French Jews and gave the foreign Jews”, had thus supported Éric Zemmour on the occasion of a “Grand rendez-vous” on Europe 1 / CNews / Les Échos, thus resuming the controversial sword and shield thesis.

An assertion qualified as an “error” by Pierre de Gaulle: “I already think it is a mistake. It is a modern media recovery that shocks me and that does not know history. There are no notions of the realities of the time, it is serious ”, he declared in front of Darius Rochebin, thus bringing the Gaullist family into the presidential debate.

A few minutes earlier, he had explained why and to what extent Eric Zemmour’s remarks had upset him and his family history: “To say that Pétain saved Jewish families already shocks me as a French person. It shocks me as the relative of my aunt Geneviève Antonioz-de Gaulle and my great-aunt Marie-Agnès de Gaulle, who were deported for acts of resistance ”, he confided before continuing:“ Pétain went much faster than Hitler imagined in passing anti-Jewish laws. It surprised Hitler. Don’t come and tell me, ‘Ah, that’s it, he saved Jewish families.’ ”

The same day on Radio J, the former president of the Constitutional Council and of the Charles de Gaulle Foundation, Pierre Mazeaud was also questioned on the subject and was angry with the media coverage of the statements of the undeclared candidate. “It’s better not to say anything about it. Leave him alone and leave us alone. Do not give him any authority whatsoever! ”, He hammered before adding:“ The more we talk about him, the happier he is. […] Your best bet would be to shut up and never talk about it. ”

Éric Zemmour went on June 18 to the birthplace of General de Gaulle in Lille, to greet there as a mirror of his potential candidacy for the Élysée “a writer” who is “anything but a professional politician”, eager to “Save” France. But the sovereignist and identity journalist who sees in the politician a “great reconciler”, will not come to Colombey-les-deux-Églises Tuesday, November 9, while rumors – denied by his entourage – circulated on a possible announcement of candidacy on the spot, for the 51st anniversary of the death of the general.

A traditional place of pilgrimage for the right, the city of Haute-Marne has become this year, because of the polemicist’s words, a symbol for certain candidates on the left in the fight against the “appropriation” of History by Eric Zemmour.

Anne Hidalgo who will be present there Tuesday and will attend the ceremonies as every year as mayor of Paris, was indignant during his “memorial sequence” started last Friday in Oradour-sur-Glane (Haute-Vienne): “Nobody go to the street to demonstrate [alors qu’Éric Zemmour, ndlr] explains that General de Gaulle and Pétain are the same thing. ”

For his part, Arnaud Montebourg, had, he, launched at the microphone of the grand jury LCI / RTL /Le Figaro, in the event of Eric Zemmour coming, “a call to all those, from the Communists to the Gaullists, who inherited Free France and the National Council of the Resistance, to go to Colombey-les-Deux- Churches to form a wall of silence and silence Mr. Zemmour ”.

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