The shaping of French national identity : narrating the nation's past, 1715-1830
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The shaping of French national identity : narrating the nation's past, 1715-1830
(New studies in European history)
Cambridge University Press, 2020
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 369-446) and index
Summary: "In April 1684, the traveller, diplomat, and essayist, François Bernier (1625-1688), anonymously published in the Journal des sçavans his 'Nouvelle division de la terre, par les différentes espèces ou races d'hommes qui l'habitent'. He there made the case that although geographers had always divided the earth into countries and regions, thanks to his travels he now believed that another kind of mapping was possible:"-- Provided by publisher
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Description
The Shaping of French National Identity casts new light on the intellectual origins of the dominant and 'official' French nineteenth-century national narrative. Focussing on the historical debates taking place throughout the eighteenth century and during the Restoration, Matthew D'Auria evokes a time when the nation's origins were being questioned and discussed and when they acquired the meaning later enshrined in the official rhetoric of the Third Republic. He examines how French writers and scholars reshaped the myths, symbols, and memories of pre-modern communities. Engaging with the myth of 'our ancestors the Gauls' and its ideological triumph over the competing myth of 'our ancestors the Franks', this study explores the ways in which the struggle developed, and the values that the two discourses enshrined, the collective actors they portrayed, and the memories they evoked. D'Auria draws attention to the continuity between ethnic discourses and national narratives and to the competition between various groups in their claims to represent the nation and to define their past as the 'true' history of France.
Table of Contents
- Introduction. Narrating the Nation: From the Nineteenth to the Eighteenth Century
- Part I: 1. Race, Blood, and Lineage: The Nobility's National Narrative and the History of France
- 2. History and Race: The Subject of Boulainvilliers's National Narrative
- 3. Debating the Nation's History: From Royal(ist) to Ethnic Origins
- Part II: 4. Thinking the Nation's Character: At the Crossroads of Literature, Anthropology, and History
- 5. Moral and Physical Causes: Montesquieu's History of Nations
- 6. Discussing the Nation's History: Franks, Gauls, and the French Character
- Part III: 7. Classifying the Nation: The Past(s) of 'Social Classes' Before and After the Revolution
- 8. A Bourgeois National Narrative: On Augustin Thierry's Reforme Historique
- 9. Debating the Nation's Past(s): Giving the Bourgeoisie its History
- Conclusion.
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