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La Politique du Peuple, XVIIIe-XXe siecle: Racines, permanences et ambiguites du populisme, by Roger Dupuy (Paris: Albin Michel, 2002; pp. 251. Eur 18).
Roger Dupuy is a specialist on the choans in the French Revolution. In this book he ranges over more than two centuries to analyse the relationship between la politique du people and populism. By politique du people he means the input into politics of 'ordinary' people whom he estimates at 80 per cent of the population. By populism he means the manipulation, mostly since the 1880s, of the people by an individual or a minority. Between 1661 and 1789 there were 8,500 popular rebellions, primarily protests against …