Children of the Revolution: The French, 1799-1914Nineteenth-century France was one of the world's great cultural beacons, renowned for its dazzling literature, philosophy, art, poetry and technology. Yet this was also a tumultuous century of political anarchy and bloodshed, where each generation of the French Revolution's 'children' would experience their own wars, revolutions and terrors. |
Contents
Discovering France | |
A Divided Society | |
Religion and Revolution | |
The French in a Foreign Mirror | |
France 18701914 | |
French Politics 18701914 | |
Reconciling Paris and the Provinces | |
Class Cohesion | |
Secularization and Religious Revival | |
Feminism and its Frustrations | |
Modernism and Mass Culture | |
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