Mek-Ouyes and Public Things

What is the poor thousand-headed animal who walks in the morning on millions of feet, at noon walks on two times fewer feet, with still as many heads, and in the evening walks on only two feet? […] “The Republic!” The Republic, dawning in a democratic Eden, weakened at midday by divisions, and ending at twilight in the despotism of a single person. (La Scène usurpée, 37)

“La République roman” is the name of a cycle of novels undertaken by Jacques Jouet. To date, this project is composed of the following texts: