Oliver Farry
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- 2
- Latest publication
- Jul 20, 2026
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- Top 5K sites
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- Jul 11, 2026
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The Peopleâs Emperor by Edward Shawcross: Entertaining and thoroughly researched biography (opens the original)
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There are few French political traditions as orphaned and unclaimed as Bonapartism. For all the reverence with which Napoléon is still held â and which serves as a sort of binding glue for the national narrative â his legacy has few takers, in comparison to Jacobinism, republicanism, monarchism and Gaullism. Even Philippe Pétain and his associated fellow traitors of collaboration can find a few relativising champions in this day and age. The reason for the lack of contemporary subscribers
How Franceâs far right went from the political fringes to the cusp of power (opens the original)
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The far right is, to use Marx and Engelsâs terminology, a spectre that is haunting Europe, or has been haunting the continent for so long now that it has successfully impregnated political life with its own obsessions and motivations without having held office in most countries. We in the media are often, not without reason, accused of complicity in this dogged persistence, particularly around election time in foreign lands when potential breakthroughs by far-right parties are given prominence
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