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An empire for the masses : the French popular image of Africa, 1870-1900.
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ISBN: 0313230439 9780313230431 Year: 1982 Volume: 11 Publisher: Westport Greenwood Press


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The deaths of Louis XVI : regicide and the French political imagination
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ISBN: 9780691141558 Year: 2008 Publisher: Princeton ; Oxford Princeton University Press

De bouche à oreille : naissance et propagation des rumeurs dans la France du XIXe siècle.
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ISBN: 2700723260 9782700723267 Year: 2003 Volume: *6 Publisher: Paris Aubier

Obstinate Hebrews : representations of Jews in France, 1715-1815
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ISBN: 128235695X 9786612356957 0520929357 1597347809 9780520929357 1417525606 9781417525607 9781597347808 0520235576 9780520235571 9781282356955 Year: 2003 Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press,

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Enlightenment writers, revolutionaries, and even Napoleon discussed and wrote about France's tiny Jewish population at great length. Why was there so much thinking about Jews when they were a minority of less than one percent and had little economic and virtually no political power? In this unusually wide-ranging study of representations of Jews in eighteenth-century France-both by Gentiles and Jews themselves-Ronald Schechter offers fresh perspectives on the Enlightenment and French Revolution, on Jewish history, and on the nature of racism and intolerance. Informed by the latest historical scholarship and by the insights of cultural theory, Obstinate Hebrews is a fascinating tale of cultural appropriation cast in the light of modern society's preoccupation with the "other." Schechter argues that the French paid attention to the Jews because thinking about the Jews helped them reflect on general issues of the day. These included the role of tradition in religion, the perfectibility of human nature, national identity, and the nature of citizenship. In a conclusion comparing and contrasting the "Jewish question" in France with discourses about women, blacks, and Native Americans, Schechter provocatively widens his inquiry, calling for a more historically precise approach to these important questions of difference.

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Jews --- French literature --- Jews in literature. --- Public opinion --- Hebrews --- Israelites --- Jewish people --- Jewry --- Judaic people --- Judaists --- Ethnology --- Religious adherents --- Semites --- Judaism --- Opinion, Public --- Perception, Public --- Popular opinion --- Public perception --- Public perceptions --- Judgment --- Social psychology --- Attitude (Psychology) --- Focus groups --- Reputation --- Social conditions --- History and criticism. --- History --- Public opinion. --- Identity. --- Napoleon --- Bonapart, Napoleon, --- Bonāpārṭa, Nepoliyana, --- Bonaparte, Napoleão, --- Bonaparte, Napoleon, --- Bonaparte, Napoleone, --- Bonaparṭeh, Napolyon, --- Buonaparte, Napoleon, --- Na-pʻo-lun, --- Nābuliyūn, --- Napoleone --- Napʻolleong, --- Napolun, --- נפוליאון --- נפוליאון, --- نابليون --- بونابرت، نابليون، --- Būnābart, Nābuliyūn, --- Relations with Jews. --- France --- Ethnic relations. --- Napoléon --- Bonaparte, Napoléon --- Bonāpārṭa, Nepoliyana --- Bonaparte, Napoleão --- Bonaparte, Napoleon --- Bonaparte, Napoleone --- Buonaparte, Napoleon --- Na-pʻo-lun --- Napolun --- Napoleon -- I, -- Emperor of the French, -- 1769-1821 -- Relations with Jews.. --- Jews -- France -- Identity.. --- Jews -- Public opinion.. --- Public opinion -- France -- History -- 18th century.. --- Public opinion -- France -- History -- 19th century.. --- Jews in literature.. --- French literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism. --- acculturation. --- alienation. --- antisemitism. --- assimilation. --- belonging. --- citizenship. --- cultural appropriation. --- cultural theory. --- discrimination. --- enlightenment. --- europe. --- exile. --- feminism. --- france. --- french history. --- french jews. --- french revolution. --- gender. --- homeland. --- human nature. --- indigenous people. --- intolerance. --- jewish history. --- jewish population. --- jewish question. --- judaica. --- judaism. --- national identity. --- native americans. --- nonfiction. --- othering. --- politics. --- prejudice. --- racism. --- religion. --- religious difference. --- social body. --- social issues. --- tradition.

The Deaths of Louis XVI : Regicide and the French Political Imagination
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ISBN: 069103429X Year: 1994 Volume: *2 Publisher: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press,

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The public beheading of Louis XVI was a unique and troubling event that scarred French collective memory for two centuries. To Jacobins, the king's decapitation was the people's coronation. To royalists, it was deicide. Nineteenth-century historians considered it an alarming miscalculation, a symbol of the Terror and the moral bankruptcy of the Revolution. By the twentieth century, Camus judged that the killing stood at the "crux of our contemporary history." In this book, Susan Dunn investigates the regicide's pivotal role in French intellectual history and political mythology. She examines how thinkers on the right and left repudiated regicide and terror, while articulating a compassionate, humanitarian vision, which became the moral basis for the modern French nation. Their credo of fraternity and unity, however, strangely depoliticized this supremely political act of regicide. Using theoretical insights from Tocqueville, Arendt, Rawls, Walzer, and others, Dunn explores the transformation of violent regicidal politics into an apolitical cult of ethical purity and an antidemocratic nationalist religion. Her book focuses on the fluidity of political myths. The figure of Louis XVI was transmuted into a Joan of Arc and a deified nation, and the notion of his sacrifice contributed to the disquieting myth of a mystical community of self- sacrificing citizens.

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Kings and rulers in literature --- Koningen en heersers in de literatuur --- Rois et souverains dans la littérature --- Historians --- Kings and rulers in literature. --- Monarchy --- Public opinion --- Regicides --- Political and social views. --- Public opinion. --- History --- Louis XVI --- Death and burial --- Trials, litigation, etc. --- France --- 19th century --- Revolution, 1789-1799 --- Psychological aspects --- Political and social views --- Louis - XVI, - King of France, - 1754-1793 - Death and burial. --- Louis - XVI, - King of France, - 1754-1793 - Trials, litigation, etc. --- Regicides - Public opinion. --- Monarchy - France - Public opinion.np --- Public opinion - France - History - 19th century. --- France - History - Revolution, 1789-1799 - Psychological aspects. --- Tod. --- Rezeption. --- Politisches Denken. --- Königsmord. --- Ludwig --- Hinrichtung --- Auswirkung. --- Frankreich. --- American Civil War. --- American Revolution. --- American amnesty. --- Belgians. --- Blanc, Louis. --- Bourbon dynasty. --- Buchez, Philippe. --- Charles VII. --- Dreyfus affair. --- English readers. --- Enlightenment. --- Franco-Prussian War. --- German fascism. --- German war criminals. --- Grenoble conspiracy. --- Hebrew Bible. --- Indian mythology. --- Jesus Christ. --- Judaism. --- Koestler, Arthur. --- Lakanal, Joseph. --- Marie-Antoinette. --- Napoleon I. --- Nazism. --- Old Testament. --- abdication. --- capitalism. --- chosen people concept. --- citizenship. --- civic virtue. --- civil disobedience. --- collaborationists. --- collective emotion. --- democracy. --- division of labor. --- emancipation of slaves. --- executioners. --- expediency. --- extremist ideologies. --- fascism. --- father figures. --- financial power. --- forgiveness. --- fraternity. --- genius. --- historiography. --- human rights. --- impeachment trials. --- liberalism. --- material prosperity. --- miracles. --- passive resistance. --- Bro-C'hall --- Fa-kuo --- Fa-lan-hsi --- Faguo --- Falanxi --- Falanxi Gongheguo --- Faransā --- Farānsah --- França --- Francia (Republic) --- Francija --- Francja --- Francland --- Francuska --- Franis --- Franḳraykh --- Frankreich --- Frankrig --- Frankrijk --- Frankrike --- Frankryk --- Fransa --- Fransa Respublikası --- Franse --- Franse Republiek --- Frant︠s︡ --- Frant︠s︡ Uls --- Frant︠s︡ii︠a︡ --- Frantsuzskai︠a︡ Rėspublika --- Frantsyi︠a︡ --- Franza --- French Republic --- Frencisc Cynewīse --- Frenska republika --- Furansu --- Furansu Kyōwakoku --- Gallia --- Gallia (Republic) --- Gallikē Dēmokratia --- Hyãsia --- Parancis --- Peurancih --- Phransiya --- Pransiya --- Pransya --- Prantsusmaa --- Pʻŭrangsŭ --- Ranska --- República Francesa --- Republica Franzesa --- Republika Francuska --- Republiḳah ha-Tsarfatit --- Republikang Pranses --- République française --- Tsarfat --- Tsorfat --- Γαλλική Δημοκρατία --- Γαλλία --- Франц --- Франц Улс --- Французская Рэспубліка --- Францыя --- Франция --- Френска република --- פראנקרייך --- צרפת --- רפובליקה הצרפתית --- فرانسه --- فرنسا --- フランス --- フランス共和国 --- 法国 --- 法蘭西 --- 法蘭西共和國 --- 프랑스 --- France (Provisional government, 1944-1946) --- Mord --- Politische Ideen --- Staatsdenken --- Staatsgedanke --- Politische Idee --- Politische Philosophie --- Politisches Bewusstsein --- Politische Theorie --- Politische Ethik --- Fortwirken --- Nachwirkung --- Nachleben --- Wirkungsgeschichte --- Aneignung --- Auswirkung --- Fortleben --- Lebensende --- Sterben --- Thanatologie --- La France --- République Française --- Französische Republik --- Empire Français --- Royaume Français --- Fränkische Republik --- Ṣārfat --- Repubblica Francese --- Franzosen

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