WEEKLY SUPPLEMENT / European library

No. 1221

***    PASCAL ORY: Peuple souverain. De la révolution populaire à la radicalité populiste. Editions Gallimard (5 rue Gaston Gallimard, F-75007 Paris. Tel: [phone] – fax: [phone] – Email: [e-mail] – Internet: www.gallimard.fr).  « Le débat » series. 2017, 252 pp. €21. ISBN 978-2-07-269344-1.

Extremes are such that they end up getting closer together.  This is the lightning conductor of this “historic essay” in which a French historian...