Farewell, Revolution: Disputed Legacies : France, 1789/1989The interpretation of the French Revolution has long been the most contentious issue in French history. How the Revolution should be remembered has been the focus of debates concerned as much with France's future as with its past. Kaplan both reviews these debates and reconstructs - in sometimes hilarious detail - events leading up to the official commemoration. Bringing to bear the skills of the archival historian and the ethnographer, he masterfully explains how a particular political culture attempts to come to terms with its past. As he sketches a provocative picture of politics in France today, he has much to say about more general relationships between memory and collective identity, history and politics. Farewell, Revolution is based on massive research, including interviews with leading players on the French cultural and political scene. Kaplan vividly describes the evolution not only of the bicentennial celebration in Paris but also of regional festivities and commemorative activities among the French Communists. |
Contents
General Introduction | 1 |
BOOK | 7 |
Aporias Dilemmas and Opportunities | 15 |
Contents | 34 |
Resurgent Counterrevolutionaries and New Age Antirevolutionaries | 41 |
The Range of Bicentennial | 63 |
Trope and IdéeForce | 84 |
The Church | 112 |
Anticlimax Zenith and Finale | 331 |
BOOK THREE THE BICENTENNIAL AND THE NATION | 345 |
Mobilization for Commemoration | 347 |
A Descent into la France Profonde | 374 |
In the Communist Penumbra | 396 |
Bicentennial Accommodation and Resistance | 425 |
The Bicentennial Destiny of Robespierre | 441 |
Farewell | 470 |
The Presidential Mode of Commemoration | 134 |
Managing Memory in the Microcosm and | 148 |
From the Worlds Fair to the Grand | 177 |
Edgar Faure as Bicentennial Missionary | 194 |
JeanNoël Jeanneney and the Mission | 220 |
The Opening of the Bicentennial Season | 247 |
From Jungle Fever to Summit Fever | 270 |
The Marseillaise Revisited | 302 |
Other editions - View all
Farewell, Revolution: Disputed Legacies, France, 1789/1989 Steven Laurence Kaplan Limited preview - 2018 |
Farewell, Revolution: The Historians' Feud : France, 1789/1989 Steven L. Kaplan No preview available - 1995 |
Farewell, Revolution: Disputed Legacies : France, 1789/1989 Steven L. Kaplan No preview available - 1995 |
Common terms and phrases
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