to our dead – Liberation

Memories of Bernard Maris, morning companion passionate about Maurice Genevoix, desacralizing and cunning economist, on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of January 7.

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To us dead,

I think back to Bernard Maris, the economist who knew how to put lively content around the dry economic figures and desecrate growth. “If I come to the radio by car, it's good for growth because I have to buy gas… But if I have an accident on the way, it will be even better for growth because you will have to buy a car, so “Long live accidents!” Bernard had another passion which he talked to me about at each of our lunches: Maurice Genevoix. I listened absently to what seemed to me to be a somewhat outdated whim from a fan of the author of the tricked dictations of our childhood. But I let myself be won over by his Toulouse style and I, too, ended up advocating the pantheonization of the Great War novelist. The monstrosities of 14-18 which fascinated Bernard have caught up with him. The attacks and the jihadist madness are also (historians say) distant repercussions of the