French Lessons
Alice Kaplan
1993
[…] On my first research trip to France as a professional scholar in the summer of 1982, I set out to find the only fascist intellectual discussed in my dissertation who was still alive; his name was Maurice Bardèche. Bardèche was the keeper of the archives of the executed writer Robert Brasillach; he had been Brasillach’s best friend at the Ecole…
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