Malgré l’ampleur bien connue de leurs oppositions, Thiers et Proudhon partagent les mêmes idées sur ce principe des nationalités qui s’impose à leur époque. Mais s’ils utilisent la même argumentation pour le contester, celle-ci repose néanmoins sur des conceptions qui demeurent divergentes.
Thiers and Proudhon against the Principle of NationalityThiers and Proudhon widely opposed each other but shared the same ideas about the principle of nationality, which was pressing forward at the time. However similar their arguments against the principle might be, they still stemmed from diverging views.