A letter written in 1943 in response to a request from the Committee of National Liberation in Algiers to outline the mood in France, which was under Nazi occupation at the time. It was first published in January by Le Figaro. Translated from the French. 

I will briefly summarize the feelings of a French intellectual confronted by the current situation in this country. In all frankness, the most prevalent sentiment is anguish. I am convinced that the kind of war being waged in metropolitan France, one in which we all participate, could lead to the renewal of the French…