Robert Zaretsky is a professor of history at the University of Houston’s Honors College and the author of Victories Never Last: Reading and Caregiving in a Time of Plague.
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French President Emmanuel Macron looks at a bust of writer Alexandre Dumas during a visit to the Monte Cristo castle near Paris, on Sep. 16. (Ludovic Marin/AFP/Getty Images)
President of Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes council, Vice-President of the French right-wing Les Republicains (LR) party, and candidate for the LR presidency, Laurent Wauquiez, delivers a speech prior to climbing the Mont Mezenc in Les Etables, central France, on September 3, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / PHILIPPE DESMAZES (Photo credit should read PHILIPPE DESMAZES/AFP/Getty Images)
LONDON, ENGLAND - JUNE 12: British Prime Minister Theresa May sits with Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson as she holds the first Cabinet meeting of her new team at 10 Downing Street on June 12, 2017 in London, England. The Cabinet met for the first time today after being reshuffled by British Prime Minister Theresa May following the Conservatives failing to achieve a majority during last week's general election. (Photo by Leon Neal - WPA Pool/Getty Images)
BRUSSELS, BELGIUM - JUNE 22: French President Emmanuel Macron arrives for his first summit since winning the Presidency, at the EU Council headquarters ahead of a European Council meeting on June 22, 2017 in Brussels, Belgium. In the first European summit since she lost her Commons majority in the general election, British Prime Minister Theresa May will outline her plans for the issue of expats' rights after Brexit. (Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images)
French far-right Front National (FN) party candidate for the presidential election Marine Le Pen gestures as she speaks during a debate at the French Confederation of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (CPME) union's headquarters in Puteaux, near Paris on March 6, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / ERIC PIERMONT (Photo credit should read ERIC PIERMONT/AFP/Getty Images)
BERLIN, GERMANY - JANUARY 10: French independent presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron chats learns about a training program for refugees at a train repair facility of German state rail carrier Deutsche Bahn on January 10, 2017 in Berlin, Germany. Macron, a former government minister and French Socialist, left the French Socialist Party (PS) and has since launched his own political initiative called "En Marche!". Approximately 120 trainees, many from countries incuding Syria, Iraq and Eritrea, are taking place in the program, which is one of many being offered by German companies. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)
