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Engagement in the struggles of the present can involve turning to the past to re-appropriate it. Alexis Corbière recently gave an example of this by publishing a history book, Jacobins! Les inventeurs de la République (ed. Perrin), about which Julien Théry met him. Since the 1980s, the "government left" and the right have continued to advance in people's minds a black legend of the French Revolution by trying to discredit the name "Jacobin". By using this name as an insult, almost equivalent to "Stalinist", it is a question of rejecting as illegitimate and dangerous what was nevertheless the first project of the French Revolution, of which we are the heirs: the concern for equality. Alexis Corbière points out that the usual opposition between the "Jacobins", supporters of intransigence around Robespierre, and the more liberal "Girondins" around Brissot, is essentially an invention of the Third Republic intended to artificially distinguish a "good" bourgeois Revolution from a bad, dogmatic and terrorist one. By promoting the idea of a "Girondin pact" during the 2017 campaign and since his election to the presidency of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron is trying to have the radicalization of inequalities accepted... while trying to impose his explicitly monarchist idea of French institutions. To show how Jacobinism must on the contrary remain a source of political inspiration in the struggles of the present, because its values are those of the left, Alexis Corbière has chosen to present a gallery of portraits representative of the richness of this political tradition. Through the itineraries of nine emblematic characters, the issues, which could not be more contemporary, of the Revolution are drawn. With obligatory passages, such as the biographies of Robespierre, Danton or Saint-Just, and much lesser-known figures, such as those of Pauline Léon, revolutionary citizen, Jean-Baptiste Belley, first black deputy, or John Oswald, vegetarian and defender of the animal cause, who died fighting the Vendée counter-revolution. ▶ Support Le Média: ???? https://soutenez.lemediatv.fr/ ???? https://www.okpal.com/le-media/ ???? https://fr.tipeee.com/le-media ✅ Follow us: Facebook: http://bit.ly/FacebookLeMedia Twitter: http://bit.ly/TwitterLeMedia Youtube: http://bit.ly/YouTubeLeMedia Peertube: https://video.lemediatv.fr Telegram: https://t.me/LeMediaOfficiel Join the Socios community! #Jacobins #Revolution #AlexisCorbiere