Pascal Paoli would be, according to the historian Erick Miceli, the inventor of the “Corsican people”.
Before the 18th century, people spoke of the “populations of Corsica”.
In recent years, this identity ideal has experienced a worrying drift.
In a fascinating personal history of French Corsica, the journalist Paul-François Paoli, whom readers of Le
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know well, recounts and analyzes this long relationship between Corsica and the Republic that his namesake had tried to think in an original way in the century lights.
In this regard, Miceli's book is very informative.
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Today, Paoli boldly asserts,
“it could be that the Corsican problem expresses the deficiency of a certain republican ideology which cannot think of France as such, independently of the Republic”
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We cannot blame him.
This revolutionary fiction of the one and indivisible nation is in question today.
Because they wanted to fight the “small nations”, which they judged…
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