Marianne into Battle: Republican imagery and symbolism in France, 1789–1880

Agulhon, Maurice

Arts & Photography

Cambridge University Press

<p>Text: English, French (translation)</p>

The Republic in the Village: The People of the Var from the French Revolution to the Second Republic (Past and Present Publications)

History

Europe

The Republican Experiment, 1848–1852 (The Cambridge History of Modern France, Series Number 2)

<p>Before 1848, France had been ruled by the 'July Monarchy', a liberal regime without democratic participation. After 1852, France was to be ruled by the Second Empire, an anti-liberal regime with some democratic participation. In the intervening period, the Second Republic boldly attempted to combine liberty with democracy for the first time in French history. Despite the Republic's failure of 1851-2, its aims were of great significance and marked the beginning of the modern era of republican France: the starting-point of what we nowadays consider the normal standard of politics in civilised countries. The reasons for the Republic's temporary failure are no less instructive, and in explaining them Professor Agulhon considers the problems of social conditions and the psychological 'apprenticeship' of the masses of new citizens. Thus his book has a special purpose, beyond the narrative treatment of events: to emphasise the relationship between the political history of France 1848-52 and the history of popular culture and thought.</p>

This work was the winner of the Gobert prize of the French Academy. The book opens with the empassioned years following the establishment of the Republic, and the introduction of democratic values and civil freedoms. It describes the brilliance of the belle epoque, its wholesale destruction during the World War I, the disillusionment of the 1920s and 1930s, followed by the fall of France to Germany in 1940. In his account of the occupation and the Vichy regime, the author examines the question of collaboration, guilt and resistance. The final part of the book tells of the mixed fortunes of the Fourth Republic, the near-revolution in 1968, the triumphant return of De Gaulle, and the acclerating process of decolonization. The author describes the role of France in the EEC, the growth of the economy and confidence under Giscard and Mitterand and recent signs of discord among its varied cultures and peoples.

The French Republic: 1879-1992 (A History of France)

Blackwell Pub.

La République au village: Les populations du Var de la Révolution à la IIe République (L'Univers historique) (French Edition)

Reference

Foreign Language Study & Reference

SEUIL

Marianne au pouvoir: L'imagerie et la symbolique républicaines de 1880 à 1914

Flammarion

FRANCE DE 1940 A NOS JOURS -LA

Schor, Ralph

& Nouschi, Andre

NATHAN SCOLAIRE

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