It is said that the Balkans produce more history than it could be consumated. If the production is the multiplication of coups d’état, revolutions, wars, etc., so the consuming would be reaching beyound the personal and family experiences turning the rough memory material into a historical discourse.
Since the XIX century the Balkans historians are acting more as national apologists that systematically aim to prove the right of their nation through the years rather than being neutral scientists. And it is not only the historians but also creative artists.
Bernard Lory is a historian and a specialist of the Balkans. He is Master of conference in Inalco and deputy manager of the Centre of Slavonic studies of the University Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV). Bernard Lory more particularly studied Bulgaria (Ottoman epoch, XXth century) and Macedonia. He has published "The fate of Ottoman Empire in Bulgaria" (Isis, Istanbul, 1985).
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