> To be clear, these intellecutals do have interesting things to say on the subject, but a handful of quotes does little to advance the debate Obviously, but I

> To be clear, these intellecutals do have interesting things to say on the subject, but a handful of quotes does little to advance the debate Obviously, but I could not translate a whole body of work on the spot, therefore I had to take shortcuts so as to give a few pointers for the interested audience. The whole process was a saga in and of itself, and Badinder's eloquent discourse on 17 sept 1981 goes more in depth, interestingly counterpointed by Maurice Barrès's one in 1908 in a paperback[0]. Again, the tip of the iceberg, but hey, we got to start somewhere before digging deeper. [0] ISBN 978-2757815021, seems available on amazon.com for a couple of bucks, apparently also in English