Pedzisa mutsara unotevera: Mushure mokunge Mutungamiri Jacques Chirac aziva mutoro wehurumende yeFrance panguva yekushanda pamwe muna 1995, pamhemberero ye
Kurwisa kweVel' d'Hiv, Judt akanyora mu"New York Times" mupepeti, "vanhu vakaita saJean-Paul Sartre naMichel Foucault vakanga vakanyarara nenzira inoshamisa. Chimwe chikonzero chakanga chiri kupengeswa kwavo nechiKomonisiti. Nepo vachizivisa kudikanwa kwoku'batanidzwa,' kutora chimiro, zvizvarwa zviviri zvevanyanzvi zvakadzivisa nhau ipi neipi yetsika iyo yaisagona kufambisira mberi kana kuti, mune zvimwe zviitiko, kunonoka nhau yaMarx. Vichy yakarambwa sebasa ravaFascist vashomanene vakwegura. Hapana munhu akanyatsocherechedza zvakanga zvaitika mukati meKugara, zvichida nemhaka yokuti vashomanene zvikuru vezvedzidzo vamarudzi ose ezvematongerwe enyika vaigona kutaura kuti vakanga vane hondo 'yakanaka,' sezvakaita Albert Camus. Hapana munhu akasimuka kuti ashevedzere kuti 'J'accuse!' kuvakuru vakuru, sezvakaitwa naÉmile Zola munguva yeDreyfus affair. Apo Simone de Beauvoir, Roland Barthes naJacques Derrida vakapinda munhandare yeruzhinji, kazhinji kazhinji kwaibatanidza dambudziko riri kure - muMadagascar, Vietnam kana Cambodia. Kunyange nhasi, vanyori vanobatanidzwa mune zvematongerwe enyika vanokumbira chiito muBosnia asi vanongopindira zvishoma nezvishoma munhaurirano pamusoro penguva yakapfuura yeFrance".