The fascinating conference by Jean Sevilla, Figaro Magazine's Editor and Laureate of 1997 Hugues Capet Prize, took place at Pierre Cardin's Residence Maxims in Paris. Attendance was brilliant as more than a hundred guests had gathered, invited by President Jacques-Henri Auclair. The topic of the conference was Jean Sevilla's latest opus, "Historically correct"
The Crusades, the Cathars, the Inquisition, the Wars of Religion, the French Revolution, the Commune, the Dreyfus case, facism and antifascim, Resistance and Collaboration, the Pie XII case, the decolonisation, the Algerian War, etc. Jean Sevilla touched upon all these topics from French and European History. For each of them, he demonstrated that the latest research jeopardised some of the commonly accepted ideas about our History.
H.R.H Princess Beatrice de Bourbon-Siciles, H.R.H. Prince Charles-Philippe d'Orleans, Admiral Lecointre, the Duchesse de La Rochefoucauld, Historian Jean-Christian Petitfils and Baron Pierre Grouvel were amongst the prestigious attendees to this fantastic conference. The evening ended, as traditionnal, with a particularly warm and friendly cocktail party...