Beg-an-Fry, a Maritime Solutré?
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Breton socialists gather every year in Beg-an-Fry (Finistère) in a place which has embodied resistance to the occupying forces since the end of the Second World War. This ritual, the only one in Brittany, aims at honoring the memory of François Mitterrand in a region that has been dominated by Rocard’s followers for a long time. How did the construction of this remembrance place on the very site where François Mitterrand landed from England in February 1944 occur? He contributed to it himself by his visits and comments in the press and in his writings. He thus produced the ‘material’ for a future posthumous worship. This memorial capture, which put Beg-an-Fry into ‘Mitterrandia’, has been taken up by the socialist party. But which memory are we talking about? That of the Resistance fighter, the party leader or that of the president of the Republic? It is the issue of the relationship among history, memory and politics which is thus raised.
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