Publication : "Days of Glory ? Imaging Military Recruitment and the French Revolution".

MAINZ Valerie, Days of Glory ? Imaging Military Recruitment and the French Revolution, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2016, 298 p. Présentation de l'éditeur : This book examines a range of visual images of military recruitment to explore changing notions of glory, or of gloire, during the French Revolution. It raises questions about how this event re-orientated notions of ‘citizenship’ and of service to ‘la Patrie’. The opening lines of the Marseillaise are grandly declamatory: Allons enfan..