| Abstract | Discusses the paradoxical use of cultural memory by prominent representatives of the "national-republican" camp in France. Memory, community and the republican idea in contemporary France; Perceptive commentaries on the success of a multi-volume collection edited by Pierre Nora; Attempt of novelists, historians and philosophers to fill in the generational gap in the hope that they will succeed in communicating what should already have been conveyed by political and cultural institutions; Need for leading public intellectuals to explain to younger generations core national values and institutions such as "the Republic," or "the love of France".
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