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While the racist song that makes Eric Zemmour dance is circulating on far-right accounts, the writer Antoine Mouton recalls his boarding school at the Chartreux high school in Lyon, where the songs played in the dormitories when waking up were of the same ilk. Proof that this culture, which has long remained a minority, is well established.
Since this morning, I have heard about a racist song circulating on social networks, and to which we saw Eric Zemmour waddling, hilarious. Her name is I won’t leaveIt is said that it was generated by an artificial intelligence, but there is indeed a human being who, if not the author, ordered it.
Hearing it, I remembered my schooling at the Lycée des Chartreux in Lyon, where I was a boarder between 1995 and 1998, under the direction of Father Georges Babolat, who has since been accused of sexual assault. I received a far-right education there. At the time, I did not have sufficient political culture to understand it and position myself in relation to it. Not all the teachers were fervent fascists, far from it. But the majority of the students were. There were the Royalists, the members of the Young National Front, those who had met in the Scouts of Europe, and many other small groups who, together, formed an overwhelming mass. The school was known to some families as an ideological gathering point. But young people did not politicize themselves on their own. The school itself was
