French History and Civilization. Papers from the George Rudé Seminar.
Volume 4 (2011)
Contents
Title Page
Abstracts
Introduction
Un mouvement historiographique à la lumière de l’histoire du livre: les Bénédictins de Saint-Maur et le gallicanisme éditorial
Jean-Dominique Mellot
Humble Petitioners? Seigneurial Courts, Royal Justice and the Role of Litigants in the Eighteenth Century
Hamish Graham
Mutual Aid Societies in Eighteenth-Century Paris
David Garrioch
Untethering Memory: On French Intellectuals Responding to the Classical Theory of Political Cycles from Montesquieu to the Revolution
G.W. Trompf
Imagining Marie Antoinette: Cultural Memory, Coolness and the Deconstruction of History in Cinema
Jennifer Milam
Rumor and Revolution: The Case of the September Massacres
Timothy Tackett
Friendship in the Revolution: A Sephardic Correspondence (1794-1799)
Helen M. Davies
Integrating Private and Public in the Life of Maximilien Robespierre
Peter McPhee
Conspiracy on St. Helena? (Mis)remembering Napoleon’s Exile
Michael Sibalis
“A Great and Noble Painting”: Léon Gambetta and the Visual Arts in the French Third Republic
Susan Foley
Thérèse of Lisieux: The Appeal of a French Saint at a Time of International Crisis
Vesna Drapac
Thérèse of Lisieux in Austria: A Case Study of Transnational Catholic Revivalism
Julie Thorpe
Surrealism and its Discontents: Georges Bataille, Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes, and the 1929 Crisis of Surrealism
Raymond Spiteri
A Forgotten Zone of Memory? French Primary School Children and the History of the Occupation
Colin Nettelbeck
The Demographers’ Moment: Georges Mauco, Immigration and Racial Selection in Liberation France, 1945-46
Greg Burgess
Nicolas Sarkozy on History and Historians
Elizabeth Rechniewski
Jeux et enjeux des mémoires dans l’espace français durant l’expansion coloniale, XIXe-XXe siècles
Reine-Claude Grondin
France and the Patrimoine of the Empire: Heritage Policy under Colonial Rule
Robert Aldrich
Murder in the Desert: Soldiers, Settlers and the Flatters Expedition in the Politics and Historical Memory of European Colonial Algeria, 1830-1881
John Strachan
Memory and History: Early Film, Colonialism and the French Civilising Mission in Indochina
Barbara Creed and Jeanette Hoorn
France in the South Pacific: An Australian Perspective
Denise Fisher