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Ou la memoire s'attarde
| Raymond Aubrac was in the French Resistance during the WWII. He is one of the few who went to the Caluire meeting and was arrested with Jean Moulin. The latter died under torture, Aubrac evaded thanks to his wife. Before the war finished, Aubrac, with a few other men, was given responsibilities by De Gaulle in rebuilding the country. His district was Marseilles. He had to be tough and ruthless in his decision to requisition the local industries but he managed to put the local economy back on the tracks. He went on doing his job as a road and bridge engineer working in Morocco and Vietnam before going back to diplomacy especially working with Henry Kissinger trying to end up the Vietnam war. In the process he made friend with Ho Chi Minh. After the end of the Vietnam war he carried on working on an agricultural project between France and Vietnam and was the initiator of a world agricultural database years before the Internet. This book is full of anecdotes relating historical events that people had not heard of before, sometimes putting the records straight. This book should be read by everybody especially children who are studying this period of history at school. |
