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What Is Property? · Character

M. Troplong

The jurist whose learned commentaries on property Proudhon reads closely, hunting for the equivocation on which the whole legal edifice rests.

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Also known as Troplong, Monsieur Troplong

First appearance: what is property

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Troplong stands among the legal authorities whose views on property Proudhon debates, treating their doctrines as serious arguments rather than straw men. Where Pothier thinks property, like royalty, exists by divine…

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CACarrelTOToullierPOPothierNENewtonMWM. WolowskiMTM. Troplong

Relationship types

  • Professional
  • Other

Character groups

  • Broad intellectual and political spectrum
  • Moral and legal authorities

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SetupEscalationAftermathClimax
  • Setup
  • Escalation
  • Breaking point
  • Aftermath
  • Closing

This passage marks the dramatic climax because it reveals the terrifying logical endpoint of property's tyrann…

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Relationships

  • Carrel

    professional · ambivalent

  • Carrel

    professional · ambivalent

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