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As a kid in the 1960s and 1970s, I could not have cared less about identity politics, but I cared about toy knights, castles, adventures, movies, Robin Hood, Thierry La Fronde, Templars, comic books, etc.

If you know your French history, you'll remember that the "fronde" was the long revolt against the crown during the boyhood of Louis XIV.

I became obsessed with “Thierry la Fronde,” the adventures of a Robin Hood-like rebel resisting the British occupation during the Hundred Years’ War.

At the heart of their fronde, as some have called it, is their outrage at Hollande's pledge to bring capital tax in line with income tax.

But how without it, under the circumstances that succeeded to the religious wars and the Fronde, anything like a positive constitution ever could have arisen in France, De Tocqueville does not say.