How the French Revolution nearly succumbed to postal chaos

CHRONIC. Debaptizing a municipality is a way to give it meaning. But it can also be the beginning of the disorderName, it is often a political act. Writing Kiev or Kyiv, it is opting for habit or novelty, and using a Russian or Ukrainian name. In a much more painless context, evoking the Bernese Jura or the Southern Jura also marks a positioning.Rename, it is just as much: Astana, capital of Kazakhstan since 1998, is successively called Akmola, …

On August 4, 1789, the National Constituent Assembly of France decreed equality before the law for all French and officially abolished feudal privileges in order, at the end of that month, to adopt the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen, giving practical beginning to the Revolution. The spark that [...]