Estelle Platini<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://kolektiva.social/@Bodhioshea" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Bodhioshea</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://kolektiva.social/@Nochem" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Nochem</span></a></span> </p><p>People had a common sense of place:<br>* mountain people are known for their steadfastness;<br>* in Paris, the moderates and the centrists were busy only in the plain at the time. (On the right bank of the river Seine.)</p><p>This opposition was familiar to revolutionaries from a classic text, the ‘Life of Solon’, in which Plutarch describes the political divisions in Athens in these terms: ‘The inhabitants of the mountains strongly supported democracy, those of the plains oligarchy; the inhabitants of the coast formed a third party, in favour of an intermediate form of government…’<br>(For other readers: i am stressing that ‘democracy’ here means the assembly of the citizens, not a parliament of representatives.)</p><p>Left-wing men could be proud of belonging to the mountain as a metaphor of the most difficult policy… if we follow historians Marc Belissa and Yannick Bosc (fr) <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FX03HWtOEa4" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=FX03HWtOEa</span><span class="invisible">4</span></a></p><p><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/QuartierLatin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>QuartierLatin</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/R%C3%A9volutionFran%C3%A7aise" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RévolutionFrançaise</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>democracy</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/parliament" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>parliament</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Paris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Paris</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/FrenchRevolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FrenchRevolution</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/France" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>France</span></a></p>