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“Restitutions”: the French Parliament ready to give in to anything

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The right‑wing Republican MP, Frédérique Meunier,
explaining that 1815 is the start of the Second Empire.

Emmanuel Macron had promised it, and for once here is a promise he will keep. In reality, this is hardly surprising: once again, it concerns attacking French heritage, which is one of his great obsessions, he who, however, had stated before his first election that there was no French culture. The bill currently undergoing accelerated procedure "relating to the restitution of cultural goods from states that, due to illicit appropriation, were deprived of them" will obviously be passed very soon. On this subject, we refer to the article by Yves-Bernard Debie published last August.

From now on, therefore, the "restitutions" of…

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