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Les jours heureux
Les jours heureux: Précédé de Il est minuit moins le quart | Sophie Binet
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Dilara
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When the wheat is under the hail
Who but a fool would
Quibble and
Think of his little quarrels
In the middle of common combat?

The one who believed in heaven
The one who didn‘t
From the height of the citadel
The sentinel shoots twice

One staggers
The other falls
The one who believed in heaven
The one who didn‘t

Now in prison
Which gets the worse cot
Which freezes more
Which likes the rats more?

Dilara The one who believed in heaven
The one who didn‘t
A rebel is a rebel
Two tears, a single knell

As it's been quoted often these last few days & was reproduced in full in the tagged book, here's Aragon's poem La rose et le réséda abt solidarity in the face of danger

English translation above copied from the full poem in English: https://mronline.org/2010/02/10/the-rose-and-the-mignonette/
Photo of a page in an illustrated poetry collection I own
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Dilara
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The programme agreed on in secret in 1944, towards the end of the war, by the Conseil National de la Résistance, uniting the political parties & trade unions on the side of the Résistance, from nationalist right to communists & anarcho-syndicalists. It outlines their plans/goals to help win the war & rebuild the country afterwards. It sows the seeds of the postwar welfare state & democracy, but I thought it would be more detailed than it was.

Dilara With a preface by the trade union leader Sophie Binet that's a lot longer than the actual programme ! Well-written and informative. Plus a call to unite against the far right - always a good thing in my book! And the famous Aragon poem The Rose and the Reseda (in English: https://impossiblepoems.blogspot.com/2013/11/la-tordue-aragon-rose-and-reseda.ht... )

Picture of Sophie Binet channeling Resistance hero Jean Moulin and members of the CNR
1mo
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