Can a country claim to be the champion of Democracy ? Fortunately democratic values are universal and - so the optimistics will say - shared by many countries around the world. This CD brings together the two oldest democratic Republics of our time : The United States of America and France through a selection of the writings that both countries have produced to defend their principles. These historical texts, recorded as documents and read by actors Charles Boyer and Orson Welles in year 1944, will lead you through the building of western democracies