Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-285) and index.
Contents:
Of kings and charters : restoration politics and the creation of the Ecole des Chartes -- Constructing an authentic national history : archives and libraries under liberal rule -- Putting the past in order : archival classification and the Ecole des chartes in the late July monarchy -- Revolutionary libraries and reactionary archives? : chartistes in the service of the Second Republic and early Empire -- The challenge of the public : defining libraries and archives in the late Second Empire.
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