After 1815, French Society found itself urgently needing to conduct its own inventory. Everyone had to know who the new statesmen were, and further, they had to understand the changing social relationships. This explains the blossoming of the contemporary biography, from the Restauration onwards (the denunciation of the "girouettes"), continued during the July Monarchy (publicity becoming sacred), and especially during the Second Empire (the Universal Exposition cult). With important people of the time taking on star-like status, an ideologically reassuring presentation of society was achieved, because the biographers introduced themselves (either implicitly or explicitly) as judges who were a step ahead of posterity 's verdict, keeping the...
This work continues a long search on the history of Issoire and the Issoiriens, which will remain th...
Rather than replaying the eternal arguments about how Sainte-Beuve was unjust to such and such a gre...
Au prisme des caricatures que ses détracteurs en ont faites dès la Restauration, parées après les « ...
After 1815, French Society found itself urgently needing to conduct its own inventory. Everyone had ...
Great men had no specifie place in the historical conceptions of French Nineteenth century thought. ...
Reflections and debates on the issue of public recognition gained heightened significance in Enlight...
They were more and more statues. The State and the citizens were richer, the modernised towns had mo...
Historical research and history taught in schools are hardy interessed in the basic individual. The ...
La question de la reconnaissance publique devient un important sujet de réflexion et de débat dans l...
"Great men" have a special place in both Guizot's historical work and in political action as he conc...
Between 1814 and 1830, during the two Restorations, the “Cent-Jours” excepted, 243 prefects serve th...
The words used by historians to describe the nation or society differ from those used by the authori...
In The School of France, published in 1984, Mona Ozouf emphasised that "France is that strange count...
The French Revolution creates a History’s acceleration and the concept of the Ancien Regime, on inst...
In 1906, the newspaper Le Petit Parisien launched a competition, richly endowed, « The game of the G...
This work continues a long search on the history of Issoire and the Issoiriens, which will remain th...
Rather than replaying the eternal arguments about how Sainte-Beuve was unjust to such and such a gre...
Au prisme des caricatures que ses détracteurs en ont faites dès la Restauration, parées après les « ...
After 1815, French Society found itself urgently needing to conduct its own inventory. Everyone had ...
Great men had no specifie place in the historical conceptions of French Nineteenth century thought. ...
Reflections and debates on the issue of public recognition gained heightened significance in Enlight...
They were more and more statues. The State and the citizens were richer, the modernised towns had mo...
Historical research and history taught in schools are hardy interessed in the basic individual. The ...
La question de la reconnaissance publique devient un important sujet de réflexion et de débat dans l...
"Great men" have a special place in both Guizot's historical work and in political action as he conc...
Between 1814 and 1830, during the two Restorations, the “Cent-Jours” excepted, 243 prefects serve th...
The words used by historians to describe the nation or society differ from those used by the authori...
In The School of France, published in 1984, Mona Ozouf emphasised that "France is that strange count...
The French Revolution creates a History’s acceleration and the concept of the Ancien Regime, on inst...
In 1906, the newspaper Le Petit Parisien launched a competition, richly endowed, « The game of the G...
This work continues a long search on the history of Issoire and the Issoiriens, which will remain th...
Rather than replaying the eternal arguments about how Sainte-Beuve was unjust to such and such a gre...
Au prisme des caricatures que ses détracteurs en ont faites dès la Restauration, parées après les « ...