Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Maps

Introduction: The Children of the Revolution

Part One: France, 1799–1870

1.  Revolution or Consensus?: French Politics, 1799–1870

2.  Discovering France

3.  A Divided Society

4.  Religion and Revolution

5.  ‘Le Malheur d’être femme’

6.  Artistic Genius and Bourgeois Culture

7.  The French in a Foreign Mirror

Part Two: France, 1870–1914

8.  War and Commune, 1870–1871

9.  Consensus Found: French Politics, 1870–1914

10.  Reconciling Paris and the Provinces

11.  Class Cohesion

12.  Secularization and Religious Revival

13.  Feminism and its Frustrations

14.  Modernism and Mass Culture

15.  Rebuilding the Nation

Conclusion: 1914

Notes

Index