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Pierre Vermeren: “Does the new French bourgeoisie measure up to the traditional bourgeoisie?”

2022-12-22T19:06:02.351Z


TRIBUNE – The academic responds to the tribune of Olivier Babeau, “Praise of the bourgeoisie”, published in our columns on December 14. Babeau judged that, in France, hatred of the bourgeois is as widespread as it is unjust, and deplored an egalitarian resentment. Without disagreeing...


Normalien, agrégé and doctor in history, former professor of contemporary economic history in preparation for HEC, Pierre Vermeren is the author of numerous books hailed by critics.

He notably published “We broke the Republic.

150 years of history of the nation” (Tallandier, 2020), “The Impasse of metropolisation” (Gallimard, coll. “Le Débat”, 2021) and “La France qui déclasse.

From deindustrialization to the health crisis” (Texto, 2022).

Olivier Babeau has committed in these pages a plea for the bourgeoisie. It is rare enough to attract attention.

In a society forged over two centuries by the bourgeoisie, and dominated by the social group of "executives", which has been expanding rapidly since the 1960s, this should not be surprising: the author points to the aggressiveness towards this social class from which the social networks and a whole political literature feed on a daily basis.

In our country so prone to civil war and class hatred, let us remember that this hostility...

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Source: lefigaro

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