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A ceremony will be held at the Élysée on Saturday March 19, for the 60th anniversary of the Evian agreements and the ceasefire in Algeria. The France Télévisions teams went to a high school, where several war actors exchanged views with the students.
Every week, under the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, Jean-Frédéric Guischard takes part in rekindling the flame. The ringing of the dead still awakens the same pain in him. “When [elle retentira], I will say to my friends up there: ‘Guys I’m here, and I haven’t forgotten you’. It’s my way of witnessing“, he confides. Jean-Frédéric Guichard was 21 when he was called up for his military service. Like all his age group, he was sent to Algeria, then considered a French department. A scar always alive.”I will go with. That’s obvious“, he says.
For the first time, he confronted his experience with other players in the Algerian war. In a high school, the former conscript shared the platform with a pied-noir, a Jewess from Algeria, a harki and an Algerian separatist. These rival memories allow students to better grasp the issues of a complex story. “What the teachers explain to us is good, but it’s not enough. We had to hear testimonies from people who lived it“, says a student.