Herrick Chapman is an American historian who is a specialist on France and a professor at New York University.
For three decades, which were more post-war upheaval than they were boom, the new French state, the cutting edge of modernisation, worked its way into all areas of social and economic life. Far from diminishing, tensions between transformations imposed top-down by the technocratic elite and citizens' demands for democracy were institutionalised.
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A la recherche de la République moderne
Herrick Chapman
