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and the idea that somehow the caring State
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cares about all people in France
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and that all people in France
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find part of their identity in the notion of being French.
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And as you already know from things we've talked about
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that part of nationalism was this sort of aggressive carrying
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of the french language into corners in which it was not spoken
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or spoken only as a second way of speaking language dialect
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patois et cetera et cetera.
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So the idea of a national will represented in the body of a strong
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executive authority is a Napoleonic idea
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that became part of the