The Mistake or the Second Life of Sylvain Regard

Jean Daniel

1953

I had learned of Louise’s suicide upon my return to Blida, my hometown. Spring had just filled the streets with the insolent beauty of those impassive young women. Violent yet secretive, as in Spain or Corsica, a long tradition had endowed them with an appearance of cold modesty, whereas, like grenades, they are primed to explode. Where were they…

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Jean Daniel

1920–2020

Born in Blida, Algeria, journalist Jean Daniel (born Jean Daniel Bensaïd) moved to France in his youth. As a teenager, he came under the influence of André Gide and the writer’s admiration for the Soviet Union. Gide’s subsequent disillusionment with Soviet communism deeply affected the young Daniel, initiating his turn toward socialism and eventually toward the center-left. During World War II, Daniel fought in the Algerian resistance, then with the armies of Giraud and Leclerc in North Africa, and finally in France. Like so many other French intellectuals, his politics as well as his personal life were colored by the Franco-Algerian War. Daniel founded Le Nouvel observateur in 1964.

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