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Unpopular Front

A Culture in Despair

Part VI: The Intellectuals and the Mob

John Ganz
Feb 17, 2021
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Factory Smoke, Edgar Degas (French, Paris 1834–1917 Paris), Monotype printed in black ink on laid paper
Factory Smoke, Edgar Degas

(This is Part VI of the series on the Third Republic. I just want to give advance warning that some readers might find the rhetoric and actions described below to be disturbing.)

In the immediate aftermath of Zola’s “J’Accuse” in 1898, mobs took to the street throughout France. The cries of “Long Live the Army” and “Death to …

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