Patrick Weil
is research director at CNRS.
Eurozine Articles
A history to be handed down
Interview with Lilian Thuram
The Caribbean-born French footballer Lilian Thuram talks about his longstanding interest in the history of slavery, about how sport can teach mutual respect, and why he still believes in the French model of integration. [more]
The politics of memory
Taboo and commemoration
While recent legislation in France ruled slavery to be a crime against humanity, the continuities of history and republicanism remain uninterrupted. [more]




