The White Stone

"The White Stone" by Anatole France is a book about «white peril» which displays French men's groups discussing the world's state. These are actually the views of the author who shares his usual topics of interest such as colonialism, religion, and racism of countries that fall in Europe. The book ending is an interesting interpretation of a futuristic forecast. Excerpt: «THE WHITE STONE FEW Frenchmen, united in friendship, who were spending the spring in Rome, were wont to meet amid the ruins of the disinterred Forum. They were Joséphin Leclerc, an Embassy Attaché on leave; M. Goubin, licencié ès lettres... Weiter