Mirabeau, Talleyrand, Condorcet, Rabaut, Saint-Étienne, Lepeletier de Saint-Fargeau, Victor Hugo, Jules Ferry, Paul Bert, Jean Jaurès, Victor Cousin, Émile Durkheim, Jules Lagneau, Henri Bergson, Alain, Ernest Renan, Michel Bré...
In a departure, author Regis Debray redefines communication as the inescapable conditioning of civilization's meanings and messages by their technologies of transmission and lays the groundwork for a science of the transmission of cultural forms.