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Roundtable discussion with Laurent Binet, Henry Rousso, Philip Watts and others

Writer Laurent Binet was awarded the 2010 Prix Goncourt du Premier Roman for his first novel, HHhH, an acronym for Himmlers Hirn heisst Heydrich (Himmler's brain is called Heydrich). The historical novel is about the rise and fall of Reinhard Heydrich, the infamous Nazi called "the man with the iron heart"  by Hitler. Just released, his newest book Rien ne se passe comme prévu, is about French President François Hollande.

Henry Rousso is a French historian and specialist of World War II, whose seminal works include The Vichy Syndrome; he is a Director of Research with the CNRS.  

Philip Watts is Professor of French at Columbia and author of Allegories of the Purge: How Literature Responded to the Postwar Trials of Writers and Intellectuals in France.