La grande explication

On April 4, 1968, the American pastor Martin Luther KING, an ardent defender of racial equality, was assassinated by a bullet in the head outside his hotel room in Memphis. The disappearance of this icon, awarded the Nobel Peace Prize a few years earlier, aroused the emotion of the whole world. La grande explication looks back at his…

In the early morning hours of August 6, 1945, the American bomber Enola Gay flies over Japan with the deadliest bomb ever dropped in its cargo bay. It was about to carry out the first nuclear attack in history. La Grande Explication tells the story of this ultimatum that changed the course of history, killing 70,000 people in a split…

On May 10, 1994, Nelson Mandela, an iconic figure in the struggle against apartheid, was inaugurated as President of the Republic of South Africa. A historic moment that sealed the reconciliation of South Africans after a century of racial segregation and consecrated the extraordinary struggle of this political icon, rewarded by the…

On December 10, 1948, the UN General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. This text, which was inspired by the French declaration of 1789, aims to protect and guarantee the rights of all individuals, everywhere in the world. No country voted against the declaration, but eight abstained. La Grande Explication…

On Monday, November 11, 1918, at 11:00 a.m., bells rang throughout France, the fighting stopped and the Marseillaise burst forth from the trenches: an armistice had just been signed. For the first time in four years, German and French soldiers could look at each other without killing each other. La grande explication looks back at…