
Olivier Christin, historian: 'The conclave is where political modernity was invented'
Olivier Christin YANN LEGENDRE Olivier Christin is a historian and a professor at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes in Paris. He is notably the author of Vox populi. Une histoire du vote avant le suffrage universel ("Vox Populi: A History of Voting …