A two-hundred year war ?, Jean-Pierre Azéma The hypothesis of rippling waves of games of memory, faults and replays, of the determining role of ideological conflicts, of verbal inflation in Franco-French wars of the 20th century seems stimulating and operational at the end of this voyage through history. But one must not jump to conclusions. A truce is not an armistice. Events since May 1981, the opposition's attacks against the new Jacobins in power and the rise in xenophobia show that the French still keep their powder dry.

Azéma Jean-Pierre. Une guerre de deux cents ans ?. In: Vingtième Siècle, revue d'histoire, n°5, janvier-mars 1985. Les guerres franco-francaises. pp. 147-154.

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