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As he did in his book published in 2019, a few months before the European elections, Philippe de Villiers has once again decided to attack Jean Monnet on CNews and Europe 1 to discredit the European Union on the eve of the elections.
There’s no need to list the historical errors, approximations and unfounded slanders that de Villiers spins out throughout this distressing interview, whose opening line, “Europe was born in a glass of cognac”, would be laughable were it not for the aim of damaging the European project.
In this Tribune du Monde dated March 28, 2019, 70 historians and renowned personalities describe the remarks made by Philippe de Villiers at the time, and repeated yesterday on CNews and Europe 1, as “a web of pretence typical of conspiracy theories”.
A useful read for those who question the validity of the words of the multi-recidivist Vendéen, or are simply interested in historical falsification for political ends.
Thank you to the historians and academics who signed the 2019 Tribune:
Gérard Bossuat, Laurence Badel, Charles Barthel, Marloes Beers, Robert Belot, Alain Beltran, Françoise Berger, Marie-Thérèse Bitsch, Anne-Laure Briatte, Bernard Bruneteau, David Burigana, Eric Bussiere, Jean-Paul Cahn, Elena Calandri, Mauve Carbonell, Michel Catala, Frédéric Clavert, Anne Couderc Université, Isabelle Davion, Jean-Marc Delaunay, Corinne defrance, Frédéric Dessberg, Vincent Dujardin , Michel Dumoulin, Robert Frank , Vera Fritz, Giacone, Alessandro, Jean-Michel Guieu, Rainer Hudemann, Jean-Noël Jeanneney, Stanislas Jeannesson, Hartmut Kaelble, Sylvain Kahn, Wolfram Kaiser, Brigitte Leucht, Marie-Françoise Lévy, Valentine Lomellini, Wilfried Loth, Piers Ludlow, Corrado Malandrino, Christine Manigand, Antoine MARES, Lorenzo Mechi, Gilbert Merlio, Hélène Miard-Delacroix, Guia Migani, Philippe Mioche, Umberto Morelli, Emmanuel Mourlon-Druol, Jean-Marie Palayret, Ulrich Pfeil, Daniela Preda, Gérard Raulet, Marie-Pierre Rey, Éric Roussel, Claire Sanderson, Sylvain Schirmann, Klaus Schwabe, Katja Seidel, Alain Soubigou, Stark Hans, Frédéric Turpin, Antonio Varsori, Philippe Vial, Laurent Warlouzet, Christian Wenkel, Andreas Wilkens