Pierre Nora - Career

Career

Pierre Nora occupies a particular position that he himself qualifies as on "the side" of the French historical sphere.

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    I restore myself when I’m alone. A career is born in public—talent in privacy.
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    He was at a starting point which makes many a man’s career a fine subject for betting, if there were any gentlemen given to that amusement who could appreciate the complicated probabilities of an arduous purpose, with all the possible thwartings and furtherings of circumstance, all the niceties of inward balance, by which a man swings and makes his point or else is carried headlong.
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    Like the old soldier of the ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Goodbye.
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