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Conservatism: it is chic, it is sexy, and it is in! Is this because of the exhaustion of the right–left divide? Does the new divide run between “conservatives against progressives,” as was cultivated by Emmanuel Macron during his presidential campaign? The already distant effect of the Manif pour tous? In any case, it is a fact that one can observe a return of interest in conservatism, which is surprising in France, where, in contrast to Germany or the Anglo-Saxon countries, conservatism, always hastily identified with the “reaction,” never had good press, at least not since the end of the nineteenth…