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<jats:p>In 1995, the Presses universitaires de France re-published (for the very first time in French) Elie Halévy's classic book<jats:italic>La formation du radicalisme philosophique</jats:italic>(first edition 1901–4). Startlingly, in the afterword of volume 1, Jean-Pierre Dupuy explained that even if this book on Bentham and his school of thought has been considered a classic and one of the first serious historical studies in any language, Halévy had been a “bad interpreter” of utilitarianism.</jats:p>