The Shaping of French National Identity: Narrating the Nation's Past, 1715-1830

by Matthew D'Auria

Book Overview

The Shaping of French National Identity casts new light on the intellectual origins of the dominant and 'official' French nineteenth-century national narrative. Focussing on the historical debates taking place throughout the eighteenth century and during the Restoration, Matthew D'Auria evokes a time when the nation's origins were being questioned and discussed and when they acquired the meaning later enshrined in the official rhetoric of the Third...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107571847
• ISBN13: 9781107571846
• Release Date: January 2024
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 487 Pages
• Weight: 1.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"