Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose. Rupture and continuity. These were two catchphrases (?) of one of my grad school professors. Something about how, in French history, things change but also stay the same. In French history and everywhere. I’m thinking also of a Fresh Air (?) interview I once heard, with the creator of Mad Men (which I still have…
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