France in the World, A New Global History by Patrick Boucheron -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Title Page Copyright Contents Preface to the English-Language Edition Overture Early Stirrings in One Corner of the World

34,000 BCE: Creating the World Deep Inside the Earth 23,000 BCE: Man Gives Himself the Face of a Woman 12,000 BCE: Climate Unhinged and Art Regenerated 5800 BCE: From the Plenitude of Eastern Wheat Fields 600 BCE: Marseille: A Greek Outpost in Gaul? 500 BCE: The Last of the Celts 52 BCE: Alésia: The Meaning of Defeat

From One Empire to Another

48: Gauls in the Roman Senate 177: Eastern Christianity’s Eldest Daughter? 212: Romans Like the Rest 397: St. Martin: Gaul’s Hungarian Patron Saint 511: The Franks Choose Paris as Their Capital 719: Africa Knocks on the Franks’ Door 800: Charlemagne, the Empire, and the World

The Feudal Order Triumphs

842–843: When Languages Did Not Make Kingdoms 882: A Viking in the Carolingian Family? 910: A Network of Monasteries 987: The Election of the King Who Did Not Make France 1051: An Early Franco-Russian Alliance 1066: Normans in the Four Corners of the World 1095: The Frankish East 1105: Troyes, a Talmudic Capital 1137: A Capetian Crosses the Loire 1143: “The Execrable Muhammad”

France Expands

1202: Four Venetians at the Champagne Fairs 1214: The Two Europes, and the France of Bouvines 1215: Universitas: The “French Model” 1247: The Science of Water Management in Thirteenth-Century France 1270: Saint Louis Is Born in Carthage 1282: “Death to the French!” 1287: Gothic Art Imperiled on the Sea 1336: The Avignon Pope Is Not in France

The Great Monarchy of the West

1347: The Plague Strikes France 1357: Paris and Europe in Revolt 1380: An Image of the World in a Library 1420: The Marriage of France and England 1446: An Enslaved Black Man in Pamiers 1456: Jacques Coeur Dies in Chios 1484: A Turkish Prince in Auvergne 1494: Charles VIII Goes to Italy — and Loses the World 1515: Whatever Led Him to Marignano? 1534: Jacques Cartier and the New Lands 1536: From Cauvin to Calvin 1539: The Empire of the French Language 1550: The Normans Play Indians 1572: Saint Bartholomew’s Season 1610: The Political Climate in Baroque France

Absolute Power

1633: Descartes Is the World! 1659: Spain Cedes Supremacy and Cocoa to France 1662: Dunkirk, Nest of Spies 1682: Versailles, Capital of French Europe 1683: 1492, French-Style? 1685: France Revokes the Edict of Nantes, All of Europe Reverberates 1686: Siam: A Missed Opportunity 1712: One Thousand and One Nights: Antoine Galland’s Forgery 1715: Persians at the Court of Louis XIV 1720: Law and Disorder

Enlightenment Nation

1751: All the World’s Knowledge 1763: A Kingdom for an Empire 1769: The World’s a Conversation 1771: Beauty and the Beast: An Opéra Comique at the Court of France 1784: Sade: Imprisoned and Universal 1789: The Global Revolution 1790: Declaring Peace on Earth 1791: Plantations in Revolution 1793: Paris, Capital of the Natural World 1794: The Terror in Europe

A Homeland for a Universal Revolution

1795: “The Republic of Letters Shall Give Birth to Republics” 1798: Conquest(s) of Egypt 1804: Many Nations Under One Code of Law 1804: The Coronation of Napoleon Bonaparte 1808: Napoleon and Spain: An Atlantic Affair 1815: Museums of Europe, Year Zero 1816: The Year Without a Summer 1825: Rescuing Greece 1832: France in the Time of Cholera 1840: Utopian Year 1842: Literature for the Planet 1848: Paris, Revolution Ground Zero 1852: Penal Colonization

Globalization in the French Style

1858: A Land of Visions 1860: The Other Free Trade Country 1863: “Algeria Shall Be an Arab Kingdom” 1869: The Inauguration of the Suez Canal 1871: Local Revolution, Global Myth 1875: Measuring the World 1883: From the Zambezi to the Corrèze, a Single World Language? 1889: Order and Progress in the Tropics 1891: Pasteurizing the French Empire 1892: “Nobody Is Innocent!” 1894: Dreyfus, a European Affair 1900: France Hosts the World 1903: French Science Enlightened by Radioactivity

Modernizing in Troubled Times

1907: A Modern Art Manifesto 1913: A Promenade for the English 1914: From the Great War to the First World War 1917: The View from New Caledonia 1919: Two World-Changing Conferences 1920: “If You Would Have Peace, Cultivate Justice” 1921: Chanel—A Woman’s Scent for the World 1923: Crossroads of Exile 1927: Naturalizing 1931: Empire at the Gates of Paris 1936: A French New Deal 1940: Free France Emerges in Equatorial Africa 1940: Lascaux: World Art and National Humiliation 1942: Vél’ d’Hiv’-Drancy-Auschwitz 1946: The Yalta of Film 1948: Universal Human Rights 1949: Reinventing Feminism 1953: “Our Comrade Stalin Is Dead” 1954: Toward a New Humanitarianism 1958: Algiers and the Collapse of the Fourth Republic 1960: The End of the Federalist Dream and the Invention of Françafrique

Leaving the Colonial Empire, Entering Europe

1961: “The Wretched of the Earth” Mourn Frantz Fanon 1962: Jerusalem and the Twilight of French Algeria 1962: Farming: A New Global Order 1965: Astérix Among the Stars 1968: “A Specter Haunts the Planet” 1973: The Scramble for Oil in a Floating World 1973: The Other 9/11 1974: Curbing Migration 1983: Socialism and Globalization 1984: “Michel Foucault Is Dead”

Today in France

1989: The Revolution Is Over 1992: A Very Muted “Yes” 1998: France and Multiculturalism: “Black-Blanc-Beur” 2003: “This Message Comes to You from an Old Country…” 2008: The Native Land in Mourning 2011: Power Stripped Bare 2015: The Return of the Flag

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