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  "path": "/articles/2026/03/26/clown-show-the-first-fascist-marquis-de-mores/",
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  "textContent": "In every era a certain kind of unprincipled demagogue driven by an insatiable need for attention and a sense of what will capture the public's imagination rises to the fore. In the early years of France’s Third Republic, it was the ludicrous Marquis de Morès.",
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