French History and Civilization. Papers from the George Rudé Seminar.

Volume 2 (2009)

Contents

Title Page

Abstracts

Introduction

The Old Regime and the New

Antiquarianism and Urban Identity in Sixteenth-Century Nîmes
Michael Wolfe

The Protestants of Paris and the Old Regime
David Garrioch

Daily Life in the French Revolution
Peter McPhee

French Cultural Projects

Théophile Gautier: Advocate of “Art for Art’s Sake” or Champion of Realism?
Lynette Stocks

“Marseille qui jazz”: Popular Culture in the Second City
Nicholas Hewitt

Kassovitz’s “France d’en bas” and Sarkozy’s “racaille”: Art and the Alienation of Politics in Contemporary France
Colin Nettelbeck

All Together Now: The Prague Manifesto (1948) and the Association française des musiciens progressistes
Mark Carroll

The Great War and its Aftermath

Command in a Coalition War: Reassessing Marshal Ferdinand Foch
Elizabeth Greenhalgh

Demobilizing the Mind: France and the Legacy of the Great War, 1919-1939
John Horne

Where is France? France Abroad and Back Again

Perceptions of France: French Books in the Early Libraries of South Australia, 1848-1884
D. J. Culpin

Marshal Lyautey’s Funerals: The Afterlife of a French Colonial Hero and the Death of an Empire
Robert Aldrich

Colonial and Post-Colonial Identities: Women Veterans of the “Battle of Algiers”
Natalya Vince

Guy Mollet’s Third Way:  National Renewal and the French Civilizing Mission in Algeria
Martin Evans

From the Body to the Body Politic

The Invention of the Unsexual: Situating Frigidity in the History of Sexuality and in Feminist Thought
Alison Moore

Eternal France: Crisis and National Self-Perception in France, 1870-2005
Robert Gildea

The Origins of Republican Discourse, 1885-1914
Charles Sowerwine

Policing the Russian Emigration in Paris, 1880-1914: The Twentieth Century as the Century of Political Police
Fredric Zuckerman

Marianne goes Multicultural: Ni putes ni soumises and the Republicanisation of Ethnic Minority Women in France
Bronwyn Winter