Talk of decentralization, it is first of all, for the historian, traced back to the origins of the word. The source of an idea is linked, from the outset, the awareness of the existence of an opposite – centralization – which it must respond. But if the centralization refers to an ancient process, that one can retrospectively be traced back to absolutism, like Tocqueville, it is clear that the word did not exist then not. The Encyclopedia says nothing. The term appeared in 1794, after Danton had, the previous year, spoke of ” centrality “. The term “decentralization” would have seen the…

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