The "Great Replacement" theory was developed by French author Renaud Camus, initially in a 2010 book titled "L'Abécédaire de l'in-nocence" ("Abecedarium of no-harm"), and the following year in an eponymous book, "Le Grand Remplacement (introduction au remplacisme global)". Camus has claimed that the name "came to [him], almost by chance, perhaps in a more or less unconscious reference to the "Grand Dérangement" of the Acadians in the 18th century." Commenting on the name, he has also declared that his theory was the "implementation in real life" of Bertolt Brecht's quip that the easiest thing to do for a government was to change the people had the people forfeited its confidence.