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The Vél d’Hiv speech — The recognition of France’s responsibility, 1995
Fifty-three years to the day after the roundup, Jacques Chirac broke with the doctrine holding Vichy outside France: “the occupier’s criminal folly was seconded by Frenchmen, by the French State.” And: “France, that day, was accomplishing the irreparable.” The Republic took on the debt. (Editorial synthesis)
The Vél d’Hiv speech took place on 16 July 1995. (source: Assemblée nationale)
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