“The French Academy, outraged by the attacks anti-semitic, which have been the subject of two of its members, Mrs Simone Veil and Mr Alain Finkielkraut, stands firmly against these acts unacceptable and wishes to express its loyalty to the memory of Mrs. Simone Veil and solidarity Mr. Alain Finkielkraut,” said the institution in a press release.

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The face of Simone Veil, painted stencil on the mailbox in paris, has recently been defiled by swastikas. The philosopher Alain Finkielkraut was the victim of name-calling anti-semitic Saturday on the sidelines of a demonstration of the “yellow Vests” in Paris.

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Two mailboxes of the town hall of the 13th arrondissement in Paris. JACQUES DEMARTHON/AFP

Received at the French Academy in 2010, Simone Veil (who disappeared in June 2017) was engraved on his sword of academician number deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau, 78651, and the motto of France (Liberté, égalité, Fraternité) and Europe (United in diversity).

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a Member of the Academy since 2016, Alain Finkielkraut who likes to be defined as an “heir of the Enlightenment” is the only son of a family of Polish jews. His father was a survivor of the concentration camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau. “Call Finkielkraut and be welcomed among you at the sound of the drum, it is to don’t believe,” said the essayist at his induction to the Academy. “It is from France, and with the complicity of the French State, that my father has been deported, it is of Beaune-la-Rolande on June 28, 1942, his convoy departed for Auschwitz-Birkenau. The franco-judaism then was shattered, the Jews who had believed to recognize in the emancipation of a new out of Egypt, have understood that they could not escape their condition,” added the philosopher.

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