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Republican passions provides an innovative perspective on the founding of the French Third Republic. Based on the archives of Lon Laurent-Pichat, journalist, Deputy and Life Senator, it demonstrates the crucial role of family and friendship networks in the republican movement during the Second Empire and early Third Republic.

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A study of the daily life, concerns, and dynamics of aristocratic families in the France of the Third Republic. -- .

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A study of the daily life, concerns, and dynamics of aristocratic families in the France of the Third Republic. -- .

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The first book-length history of the classic French childrens author, the comtesse de Sgur (1799-1874). Virtually unknown in the English-speaking world, in France Sgur is a national icon and a cultural phenomenon. This study of her life and works will interest scholars of childrens literature, gender studies, and nineteenth-century France.

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Challenging the subjects current interpretation, this microhistorical study traces the social and civic dynamics of the French Revolutions religious politics within five small towns.

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Looking at the royal rituals around the death of Louis XV and the accession of Louis XVI, this book sheds new light on the politics and culture of the period, offering original perspectives on court culture, the transition of power, the recall of the Paris parlement and the first year of Louis XVI's reign, including his coronation in June 1775.

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Looking at the royal rituals around the death of Louis XV and the accession of Louis XVI, this book sheds new light on the politics and culture of the period, offering original perspectives on court culture, the transition of power, the recall of the Paris parlement and the first year of Louis XVI's reign, including his coronation in June 1775.

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A fascinating biography that sheds light on Jewish history, economic history and nineteenth-century France -- .

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A fascinating biography that sheds light on Jewish history, economic history and nineteenth-century France

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This book explores the memory of the war of independence in France as viewed by the former European settlers (pieds-noirs) and the harkis, those Algerians who worked for the French security forces. It examines how the memorial dynamics of the two groups are related both to each other and to other memories of the war. -- .

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This book explores the memory of the war of independence in France as viewed by the former European settlers (pieds-noirs) and the harkis, those Algerians who worked for the French security forces. It examines how the memorial dynamics of the two groups are related both to each other and to other memories of the war. -- .

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This book, a companion to the authors acclaimed Emile and Isaac Pereire (2015), sheds new light on elite Jewish families in nineteenth-century France.

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Sheds new light on the cultural origins and practical ambitions of the French Revolution through an analysis of debates over education in eighteenth-century France. -- .

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Sheds new light on the cultural origins and practical ambitions of the French Revolution through an analysis of debates over education in eighteenth-century France. -- .

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This book explores the process by which the French Basque country acquired a folkloric regional identity in the long nineteenth century. It argues that, despite originating in pre-modern customs, such stereotypical identity was invented in the long nineteenth century as part of Frances process of nation-building.

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The French mutinies of 1919 stretched from the Soviet Union through to France's naval ports. It is the first study to try to understand the subjective world of the mutineers. -- .

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The French mutinies of 1919 stretched from the Soviet Union through to France's naval ports. It is the first study to try to understand the subjective world of the mutineers. -- .

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This is a study of noble families' collective memory and transmission of tangible and intangible cultural heritage. -- .

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This book examines the life and career of popular French psychoanalyst Franoise Dolto (190888). It connects her rise to two broader histories: the dramatic growth of psychoanalysis in postwar France and the long-running debate over the family and the proper role of women in society.

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Explores Robespierre's vision and the events held across France on this day, which he declared a national day of celebration to inaugurate the state religion of the new French Republic, the Cult of the Supreme Being. It redefines the importance of the Festival in the development of the Revolution. -- .

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Explores Robespierre's vision and the events held across France on this day, which he declared a national day of celebration to inaugurate the state religion of the new French Republic, the Cult of the Supreme Being. It redefines the importance of the Festival in the development of the Revolution. -- .

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Sport and physical culture in Occupied France is a scholarly and readable account of French sport during the Vichy regime. It explores two competing phenomena: the states promotion of physical culture to rehabilitate French people during the Occupation and athletes and sporting associations use of the states efforts to serve their own agendas.

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This book traces the history of post-war France by tracking the Comite Regional d'Action Viticole (CRAV), a militant collective of winegrowers who have used protest and violence to push back against attempts to modernise the French economy and state and the wider impacts of globalisation. -- .

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This book traces the history of post-war France by tracking the Comite Regional d'Action Viticole (CRAV), a militant collective of winegrowers who have used protest and violence to push back against attempts to modernise the French economy and state and the wider impacts of globalisation. -- .