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The French Emergency
From Algeria to the Paris attacks, French elites have used state of emergency legislation to consolidate power and repress dissent.
Grey Anderson is a PhD candidate in history at Yale University.
From Algeria to the Paris attacks, French elites have used state of emergency legislation to consolidate power and repress dissent.