"
The Republic, our kingdom of France
", wrote Charles Péguy.
Shouldn't we reverse the oxymoron?
The unanimous emotion and attention aroused by the death of Queen Elizabeth lead one to wonder if it is not the monarchy which, unconsciously, is our Republic of France.
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While the vulgate makes the Revolution our official birth certificate, while the dominant political discourse distinguishes between "republican" parties and those accused of not being so, the popularity on this side of the Channel of the British sovereign reveals, as we say in photography, the monarchist background buried among the French.
There is a constituent ambivalence of the French temperament.
Our history is made of ruptures, but the nation is millennial
There is of course no debate on the nature of the institutions.
From the most revolutionary to the most conservative, no one imagines a return to an old regime.
But there is a constituent ambivalence of the French temperament.
Our history is made up of ruptures, but the nation is millennial.
We see it in the most current debates.
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