Twenty-three years after his death and thirty-six years after being ousted from power by Ben Ali, the word is freed around the memory of the "founder" of modern Tunisia. Historians, sociologists, former ministers and psychiatrists gathered for three days, from 1 to 3 June, in Tunis, to discuss the legacy of the first president of independent Tunisia.
There was talk of her determination to emancipate women, continuity of her work of liberation or expression of her authoritarianism.