Religious holidays and temporal authority in old regime France -- Politics of time and the politics of the times, 1642-1695 -- Centralization without the state : religious holidays in the eighteenth century -- Which time for the future? Utility, anti-clericalism, and the calendar -- Seeing like a church : religious time and Republican politics, 1789-VI -- Reluctant missionaries : enforcement of the Republican calendar, VI-VII -- Une loi de l'eglise et de l'etat : Napoleon and the central administration of religious life, 1800-1815
Summary
A study of the changes in religious holidays in Old Regime and Revolutionary France. It highlights the importance of cultural and religious history in the transformations of French society that took place from the mid-seventeenth through the early nineteenth century and tells a story of the development of a French national calendar of holidays
