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Romain Choron, historian and officer, expiatory victim of the stiffening of the French state on the military archives of the Algerian war

Les déboires administratifs subis par le Saint-Cyrien en raison de sa consultation d’archives classifiées sur la guerre souterraine menée par la France en Algérie, entre 1959 et 1962, ont soulevé une vive émotion chez les historiens. Ils illustrent les tentatives de l’Etat de durcir l’accès aux documents historiques sensibles.

Source : Le Monde — International Machine translation; the original is in English.

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