History at the RoundaboutThe Pasts and Presents of the Gilets Jaunes

Reid, Donald

doi:10.1215/21599785-9753120

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Research Article| October 01 2022

History at the Roundabout: The Pasts and Presents of the Gilets Jaunes

Donald Reid

Donald Reid is professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. During the heyday of the history of the popular classes, he wrote The Miners of Decazeville: A Genealogy of Deindustrialization (1985) and Paris Sewers and Sewermen: Realities and Representations (1991). He returned to the fold with Opening the Gates. The Lip Affair, 1968–1981 (2018).

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History of the Present (2022) 12 (2): 183–206.

https://doi.org/10.1215/21599785-9753120

Abstract

The Gilets jaunes brought attention to the existence and demands of the popular classes as other than the deplorables of the far right. This essay examines the ideas of an innovative group of historians who interpret the Gilets jaunes as evoking and enacting the unresolved issues of the revolutions of 1789, 1848, and 1871 on the nature and practice of democracy in France.

Gilets jaunes, democracy, Emmanuel Macron, Revolution of 1848, popular classes

2022

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