TRIVIAL ANECDOTES AND STRINGS OF FACT DIVORCED FROM CONTEXT BUTTRESS THE RIGHT
"Louis XIV wasn't very tall" said a guide in front of the king's statue at the musée Carnavalet. Details to which one can say "So what?" lighten up facts that make no sense, as in the textbook with which the preceding page begins.
Such narration discredits History itself, erasing a tool that helps identify real problems and deadly opponents.
It — involuntarily — protects the powerful.
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