Francois Syrou. “What is courage?”

In matters of virtue, as we know, we talk more easily about what we do not have. Hypocrisy is not the only respect born of vice, preaching and preaching also come from it. Thus, Julien Green claimed that pious books were written by the devil. Dictatorship states invoke freedom, lustful peoples purity, violent nations pacifism. Virtue is perhaps above all regret, and this regret takes all the forms that the imagination takes, personal, religious, or political. I won’t dwell on that though the head culpes and I come to Monnet, this lawyer of Chatelet, who became Councilor of State, then intended, and who, being endowed with immense wealth, bequeathed it to the disinherited and to the French Academy, on condition that every one read. year by one of its members “speech which will contain the praise of an act of virtue.” I first thought to extol the rarely described virtue of flight…