Historian Sophie Wahnich compares the current period with the French Revolution, from the Marseillaise to the image of Macron as Louis XVI: possible parallels, excessive comparisons and potentialities at work.
The spectre of climate catastrophe looms over the ongoing gilets jaunes protests. How can we imagine a liberated future when we can barely even imagine a future without mass extinction? Sophie Wahnich looks at the concept of posterity and revolutionary citizenship from the French Revolution and what it can teach today's activists in this article, originally published by Libération.
