One the giants of French literature, Chateaubriand, denounced silence in the face of evil.  When everyone trembles before the tyrant, the historian appears.  Unfortunately, historians may be assassins of memory, and one professional notorious falsifier of history that few will mourn has now disappeared. Robert Faurisson, born in a suburb 15 miles from London of a French father and a Scottish mother, a dual citizen of both countries, died aged 89 on October 21, 2018 in his home in the symbolically appropriate city of Vichy. Faurisson was a notorious hater of Jews who defended obnoxious ideas, a fountain of evil.  Faurisson, educated in France, became professor at the Sorbonne until 1973 and then professor of French literature at the University of Lyon until 1991.  He will hardly be remembered for his knowledge of 19th-century French poetry, which he taught.  Concerned with nationalist politics in France, he became a public figure...(Read Full Article)