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So, the reverse of the normal succession of generations was seen as shocking, not only during the war,
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not only in the immediate aftermath of war, but also years later.
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I want to quote an amazing page from the last novel
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you probably know it, it's probably one of the most wonderful books written by Albert Camus,
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Le Premier Homme, The First Man, a copy of which, as you may know,
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was filmed in a briefcase near the car in which the novelist died in January 1960,
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at the age of forty-six.
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In 1953 Albert Camus made a pilgrimage to the cemetery in brittany
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where his father lay.
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He filmed the grave, in the first row of the military
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section of the Saint Michel Cemetery at Saint-Brieuc,
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and there he read the date, and I quote, "1885-1914," and