There have been other times in France’s history when entire segments of the electorate have ejected themselves from the game, without the rest of the players rushing over to beg them to get back on the field. Georges Clémenceau, Jean Jaurès, and Raymond Poincaré, at the outset of the twentieth century, did not pander to the nearly half of the electorate that, during the Dreyfus Affair, had exiled themselves from the republic.
法国历史上不乏这样的情况，某个细分选民集体全体退出选举，而其他参与者也不上前恳请他们回到选举中来。二十世纪初，克莱蒙梭、饶勒斯、庞加莱都没有迎合在德雷福斯事件期间自绝于共和国的近一半选民。