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Author Hazareesingh, Sudhir.

Title The Saint-Napoleon : celebrations of sovereignty in nineteenth-century France / Sudhir Hazareesingh
Published Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2004

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 307 pages) : illustrations
Contents Civic festivities in nineteenth-century France -- A common sentiment of national glory -- Variations on provincial themes -- Proud to be French -- Honorable and honored citizens -- Incidents, accidents, excesses -- All the majesty of the state -- The immense space between heaven and earth -- We have our own music -- Eroding Bonapartist sovereignty -- Legitimist coldness, Republican enthusiasm
Summary "Drawing on a wealth of archival evidence, Sudhir Hazareesingh vividly reconstructs the symbolic richness and political complexity of the Saint-Napoleon festivities in a work that opens up broader questions about the nature of the French state, unity and lines of fracture in society, changing boundaries between public and private spheres, and the role of myth and memory in constructing nationhood. The state's Bonapartist identity was at times vigorously contested by local social, political, and religious groups. In various regions, people used the national day to celebrate their own communities and to honor their hometown veterans; but elsewhere, the revival of republican sentiment clashed sharply with imperial attitudes."--Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 -- Influence
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 -- Monuments
SUBJECT Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 fast
Subject Political culture -- France -- History -- 19th century
Political customs and rites -- France -- 19th century
Bonapartism -- France -- History -- 19th century
Festivals -- France.
Symbolism in politics -- France
Political customs and rites -- France -- History -- 19th century
HISTORY.
HISTORY -- Europe -- France.
Bonapartism
Festivals
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Monuments
Political culture
Political customs and rites
Symbolism in politics
Festivals.
Politieke cultuur.
Bonapartisme.
SUBJECT France -- History -- Second Empire, 1852-1870. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051409
Subject France
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780674038448
0674038444