Times, it is true, have changed.
The “phryges”, Olympic Games mascots representing the Phrygian caps, are made in China.
Robespierre has blue hair, and if the guillotine is still working at full speed, it is now digital, which hurts a lot less.
But the unquenchable thirst for revolution of the French is still there, like a smoldering fire under the embers, ready to resume at the slightest spark.
1789 haunts our public life.
On October 6, Jean-Luc Mélenchon called on Twitter the crowds marching against the “expensive life” to do better than the women during the Versailles march.
The "yellow vests" dreamed of taking the Elysée as we took the Bastille.
Emmanuel Macron himself underlined how much the "death of the king" inhabited our imagination.
No one better than the historian François Furet has analyzed the obsessive relationship of the French to their revolutionary past.
François Furet's Primer
(Éditions de l'Observatoire) allows us to…
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