The Saint-Napoleon: Celebrations of Sovereignty in Nineteenth-Century France

by Sudhir Hazareesingh

In 1852, President Louis Napoleon of France declared that August 15--Napoleon Bonaparte's birthday--would be celebrated as France's national day. Leading up to the creation of the Second Empire, this was the first in a series of attempts to "Bonapartize" his regime and strengthen its popular legitimacy. Across France, public institutions sought to draw local citizens together to celebrate civic ideals of unity, order, and patriotism. But the new...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674013417
• ISBN13: 9780674013414
• Release Date: May 2004
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 307 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.6"