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IN THE LAST FEW YEARS, prominent philosophers, sociologists, historians, and anthropologists have demonstrated a lot of interest in the deep-cutting changes unfolding in French society since the 1960s. On the whole, all of them write about post-Christian France that differs a lot from the country of previous generations. Jérôme Fourquet's The French Archipelago,1 published in 2019 has already become the most popular, or even iconic, book. The author has presented the French society as splintered and fragmented, having journeyed from a united and inseparable nation to a multicultural "archipelago." Fourquet is not alone; hundreds of other publications describe the same phenomenon. Such are the works of philosopher Alain Finkielkraut, demographer and historian Hervé Le Bras, and historian and anthropologist Emmanuel Todd. The book How Our World Ceased to Be Christian2 by historian Guillaume Cuchet stirred up a lot of interest.
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