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Is this yet another book defending and explaining the Latin language? Yes, but this one boasts that it is different, because it is the product of experience in the field―secondary school―where the ultimate fate of this bimillenary course of study is at stake today. Enriched with multiple anecdotes, and written in a satirical, uncompromising, well-researched and personal style, this book invites us to take up arms and defend Latin to the hilt, to fight against the deep-rooted prejudices assailing this subject, and prove that Latin is not a rearguard elitists’ battle, but a major challenge ahead for the intellectual development of all future citizens. Robert Delord teaches Classical Literature in the Drôme region, and chairs the association “Arrête Ton Char!” which promotes antiquity’s languages and cultures among students and the general public. This amateur photographer of statues and ancient sites, fan of improvised music, saxophonist, scratcher, and beatboxer, has, above all, an insatiable curiosity that he strives to inculcate in all of his students.