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1 online resource (ix, 425 pages) |
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Intro; Title Page; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; Ritual and Memory; State Funerals and the Republic; Part I: GENEALOGY; 1: The French Revolution and the Emergence of Republican State Funerals 1789-1799; Royal Funerals before the French Revolution; The Republican Funerals of the French Revolution; A Funeral with Multiple Facets; Funerals of Integration: Mirabeau and Voltaire; Funerals of Exclusion: Lepeletier and Marat; Funerals of Integration after Thermidor; 2: State Funerals of Kings and Emperors 1800-1870; The First Empire |
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The Bourbon RestorationThe July Monarchy; The Return of the Ashes of Napoleon; The Second Empire; 3: Subversive and Revolutionary Funerals 1800-1870; Subversive Funerals; Revolutionary Funerals; 4: The Moral Order: The Battle over Civil Funerals 1871-1877; The State Funerals of the Moral Order; The Tradition of Civil Funerals; Lyons: The Cityscape as Symbolic Battleground; The French Army and Civil Funerals; Civil Funerals of Eminent Republicans; 5: The Third Republic: The State Funeral as Civic Festival 1879-1940; The Republic as Pedagogy; Festivals in the Service of the Republic |
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Two Nineteenth-Century CultsReforming the Ceremonial of Death; Reopening the Gates of the Panth»on; History and Memory in the Service of the Republic; Part II: POLITICS; 6: Funerals of Politicians; The State Funeral: A Ceremony with a Certain Image; The List of State Funerals; Unsuccessful Official Proposals for a Transfer to the Pantheon; The First President of the Third Republic: Adolphe Thiers; A Founding Father: Leon Gambetta; A President of the Republic: Felix Faure; 7: Funerals of Soldiers and Colonizers; Soldiers; Colonizers; 8: Funerals of Scientists, Writers, and Musicians |
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ScientistsWriters; Musicians: Charles Gounod, Gabriel Faure, Camille Saint-Saens; Conclusion: The State Funeral as a Social Drama; Part III: CULTURE; 9: The State Funeral as a Rite of Passage; 10: Separation: The Moment of Death and the Lying-in-State; The Private and the Public Domains; The Death of a Great Man; The Republic takes over; The Dead Body at Home and the Lying-in-State; 11: Transition: The Procession and the City; Creating a Sacred Time; Creating a Sacred Space; The Procession; The Crowd as Spectators and Participants |
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12: Incorporation: The Burial and the Resonance of the FuneralThe Farewell Ceremony and the Funeral Oration; The Burial and the Journey of the Coffin; The Resonance of the Funeral; The State Funeral and the Unity of the Nation; Epilogue: From Vichy to the Fifth Republic: Decline or Transformation?; The Vichy Regime; The Fourth Republic; The Fifth Republic: Charles De Gaulle; The Fifth Republic: Francois Mitterrand; Conclusion: Republican State Funerals in a Comparative Perspective; Appendix A: The State Funerals of the Second Empire; Appendix B: The State Funerals of the Third Republic |
| Summary |
This study of the state funerals that were celebrated in France between the revolution and the death of Mitterand investigates the funerals of a number of prominent figures which became major public events |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Funeral rites and ceremonies -- France
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Celebrities -- France -- Death
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Death -- Symbolic aspects -- France
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Political culture -- France
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Funeral Rites -- history
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Attitude to Death -- history
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Politics -- history
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Celebrities -- Death.
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Death -- Symbolic aspects.
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Funeral rites and ceremonies.
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Political culture.
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| SUBJECT |
France -- History -- 1789- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051348
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| Subject |
France.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
128044505X |
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9781280445057 |
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9780191675836 |
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0191675830 |
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