The profusion of speeches around Taizé proves that a page of the history of Taizé is turning. The death of the founder is certainly not foreign. However, among the works that try to refer to this half-century adventure, some have more than a modernised hagiography, sometimes even a golden legend, than a real work of history or sociology. That of Jean-Claude Escaffit, journalist in La Croix, then La Vie, and Moïz Rasiwala, diacre, former volunteer in...