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The mobilization of French peasants was surprising in its scale.
These demonstrations can evoke certain distant episodes in the history of popular revolts.
The connection of events across the centuries is ambiguous;
it is both essential, to make the course of time legible, and perilous, exposed to the seductive and fallacious misinterpretations of anachronism.
Indeed, historians, no more than others, have never predicted the future.
History does not repeat itself and the infallible lessons that we believed and still believe we recognize sometimes end in disasters.
Distinctions and precautions are therefore necessary.
We can say, at the very least, that the revolt is consubstantial with the notion of the State...
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