Shadows of Revolution, Reflections on France, Past and Present by Bell, David A. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover page Halftitle page Series page Title page Copyright page Dedication page Contents Halftitle page Introduction: 45, rue d’ulm Part I. The “Longue Durée”

1. Paris Blues: History and the French State 2. The Ordeal of Legitimacy: France and Its Jews 3. The Never-Ending “Herstory”: History from Below, Women, and Gender 4. Bicycle History: The Supposed Lost Tribes of Rural France

Part II. From the Old Regime to the Revolution

1. The Colbert Report: Information Management, Bourbon-Style 2. Twilight Approaches: Myths and Realities of the Literary Salons 3. Profane Illuminations: The Enlightenment’s Feuding Giants 4. Enlightenment’s Errand Boy: The Enlightenment and the Republic of Letters 5. The Fault Is Not in Our “Stars,” but in Ourselves: The Invention of Celebrity 6. Handsome, Charming…: Comedy, Social Climbing, and the End of the Old Regime 7. Where Do We Come From? The Enlightenment and the Age of Revolutions

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Part III. The Revolution

1. Un Dret Egal: The Revolution and Human Rights 2. Cherchez la Femme: The Revolution and Women 3. Words and Tumbrels: The Revolution and Language

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4. Bastille Days: The Revolution’s Great Eccentric Historian 5. The Culture of War in Europe, 1750–1815 6. The Conductor: Maximilien Robespierre 7. A Very Different French Revolution

Part IV. Napoleon Bonaparte

1. Just Like Us: Writing Napoleon’s Life 2. When the Barracks Were Bursting with Poets: Napoleon’s Life Writing 3. Brushes with Power: Napoleon and Art 4. One Does It Like This: Napoleon’s “Shit in a Silk Stocking” 5. Was Tolstoy Right? Napoleon in Russia 6. Violets in Their Lapels: Napoleon’s Legend

Part V. The Nineteenth Century

1. Becoming France: A Country between Traumas 2. La Même Chose: Americans Abroad 3. Big: The Napoleon of Literature 4. Who Mended Pierre’s Leg? Lourdes and the Catholic Right 5. Conspiracy Porn: Fictional Anti-Semitism 6. Pogroms of Words: The France of the Dreyfus Affair

Part VI. Vichy

1. When French Irrationality Was Deadly: Vichy’s Literary Progenitors 2. The Collaborator: Vichy’s Moral Drama 3. Everyday Choices: Dealing with the Occupation 4. The Humanist as Hero: The Literary Sources of Moral Resistance 5. Poison Pen: A Literary Collaborator on Trial 6. The President as Narcissist: From Vichy to the Élysée

Part VII. Parallels: Past and Present

1. Paristroika: From the Bastille to the Lubyanka 2. The Shorn Identity: The End of French Republican Assimilation 3. The Peace Paradox: From Paris to Baghdad 4. Why We Can’t Rule Out an Egyptian Reign of Terror: From Paris to Cairo 5. Inglorious Revolutions: Why We Expect Too Much Coda: the french dilemma

Acknowledgments Credits

The New Republic The London Review of Books The Nation The New York Times Sunday Book Review The New York Times Magazine The Guardian The National Interest Foreign Policy Books&Ideas.net Oxford University Press and the British Academy Dissent Magazine

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