Lettre à un maudit

Following the painful exodus of 1962, Jean Brune launches a moving appeal for reconciliation to his fellow Pied-Noir countrymen.

When everything collapses, formal values no longer hold sway. One must reinvent duty and not weave derisory intrigues.

Establish yourself proudly and await the future, it will be born naturally from your silences.

The future is merely fervor to be put in order. This void you discover around you is the opportunity that destiny offers you. Here is a France to be made. You were a seed in Africa, you will be a seed in Europe.

In the general transformation of the world, what you do with the French can reach such a dimension of example that France will rediscover this role of pioneer that it disdained in Africa.

The dream begins again. (Jean Brune, 1963)