In Beziers, We Write Our Names in Dust
Murder, massacres, and the meandering path of time
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7 min readAug 31, 2022
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The murder didn’t happen here
It was in St Etienne du Rouvray where teenage terrorists cut a priest’s throat. It’s a long way from there to here, long enough for the rolling green fields of northern France to give way to the wild wind and fierce sun of the South.