In October 2023, in Paris, in the presence of President Macron, the State funeral of Hélène Carrère d’Encausse was held. She was a famous historian, author of highly celebrated books on the Soviet Union, and had been the first woman to hold the post of president of the French Academy for life. Sitting in the front row, her son Emmanuel Carrère may have felt, under grief and mourning, a form of liberation. Hélène had been a brilliant mother, omni…
In October 2023, in Paris, in the presence of President Macron, the State funeral of Hélène Carrère d’Encausse was held. She was a famous historian, author of highly celebrated books on the Soviet Union, and had been the first woman to hold the post of president of the French Academy for life. Sitting in the front row, her son Emmanuel Carrère may have felt, under grief and mourning, a form of liberation. Hélène had been a brilliant mother, omni…