Suzanne Citron

[7] During the Occupation, after the arrest of two of her cousins during a raid, she clandestinely crossed the demarcation line on 15 July 1941 into the free zone.

[7] During the Algerian war, which she defined as "a second internal shock", she was revolted by the special powers voted at the initiative of Guy Mollet's socialist government in 1956.

Shortly after May 1968, she published an article in Le Monde, entitled "Ce que nous attendons du ministère de l'éducation" (What we expect from the Ministry of Education) in which she outlined a reorganisation and decompartmentalisation of schooling.

[7] In 1987, she published the book that will remain associated with her name, Le Mythe National, a work deconstructing history as it was taught at the time.

[7] But she continued to denounce its matrix, namely, Histoire de France, cours élémentaire (Elementary course in French history) known as the "petit Lavisse", a textbook for schools during the Third Republic.

On the set of L'Émission politique on 24 March, the left-wing historian Laurence De Cock offered a copy to François Fillon, who advocated a return to the national narrative in his political campaign.

[15] Her position, set out in three paragraphs, continued as follows: "Interned at Drancy on 4 July 1944 and liberated by the events of 17 August 1944, I formally deny any justification for the presence of a man who condones the exactions and misdeeds of Israeli colonisation in Palestine, and I reject the endless and demagogic confusion between antisemitism and criticism of the State of Israel" ("Internée à Drancy le 4 juillet 1944 et libérée par les événements du 17 août 1944, je dénie formellement toute justification à la présence d’un homme cautionnant les exactions et les méfaits de la colonisation israélienne en Palestine et je récuse la sempiternelle et démagogique confusion entre antisémitisme et critique de l’État d’Israël").