Debt, 1789 and 2023: is history repeating itself?
The French Revolution has always been seen, quite rightly, as a period of insurrection in the face of the inequalities that remained. But these insurrections and social movements have often been analysed more than the inequalities themselves. One major phenomenon is often forgotten: the role of debt in the birth of the Revolution of 1789 …
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