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Loris Chavanette: “What is the Third Estate? Not Mélenchon»

2022-05-08T17:59:03.061Z


TRIBUNE - By dint of considering that the historic demagoguery of the far-left leader is inevitable, or of absolving it by claiming that it is humor, we allow political mythologies to be forged that do damage, argues the 'historian.


Loris Chavanette is the author, in particular, of

Quatre-vingt-quinze.

The Terror on Trial

(CNRS editions, 2017, preface by historian Patrice Gueniffey), thesis prize from the National Assembly 2013 and history prize from the Fondation Stéphane Bern-Institut de France 2018, and from

Danton and Robespierre.

The shock of the Revolution

(Pasts compounds, 2021).

He also established the edition of a selection of Napoleon's letters,

Napoleon.

Between eternity, the ocean and the night.

Correspondence

(Books, 2020).

At the start of the school year, Loris Chavanette will publish an essay on 1789 and the summer of Mirabeau, with Éditions Tallandier.

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The presidential election which has just ended has been marked by the traditional political demagoguery, this disease which plagues democracies.

But it also brought to light another equally pernicious manipulation of the electorate: historical demagoguery.

This consists of trafficking in the past with a purely clientelist aim, by arranging the history of France in its own way...

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