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culture wars in the age of Dreyfus

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An edition of For the soul of France (2010)

For the soul of France

culture wars in the age of Dreyfus

1st ed.
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Cultural historian Frederick Brown provides a portrait of fin-de-sic̈le France, whose defeat by Prussia in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71 resulted in a virtual civil war, waged without restraint, which toppled Napoléon III, crushed the Paris Commune, and provoked a dangerous nationalism that gripped the Republic. In the face of humiliation by Prussia, postwar France dissolved into two cultural factions: moderates, proponents of a secular state, and reactionaries--militant, Catholic, royalist--who felt that France had suffered defeat for having betrayed its true faith. A bitter debate took hold of the heart and soul of the country, framed by the vision of "science" and "technological advancement" versus "supernatural intervention." The roiling conflicts that began thirty years before Dreyfus did not end with his exoneration in 1900--instead they became the festering point that led to France's surrender to Hitler's armies in 1940.--From publisher description.

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Alfred A. Knopf
Language
English
Pages
304

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Table of Contents

From The life of Jesus to the Sacré-Coeur
Birth pangs of a secular republic
The crash of the Union Générale
France on horse
The ogre of modernity : Eiffel's tower
The Panama scandal
The Dreyfus affair
The burning of the charity bazaar
Two banquets.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-281) and index.

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New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
944.081
Library of Congress
DC337 .B68 2010

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxv, 304 p. :
Number of pages
304

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24434388M
Internet Archive
forsouloffrancec0000brow
ISBN 10
0307266311
ISBN 13
9780307266316
LCCN
2009030912
OCLC/WorldCat
419798763

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