Includes bibliographical references (p. 444-519) and index.
Contents:
Introduction : the children of the Revolution -- pt. 1: France, 1799-1870. Revolution or consensus? : French politics, 1799-1870 -- Discovering France -- A divided society -- Religion and revolution -- "Le malheur d'être femme" -- Artistic genius and bourgeois culture -- The French in a foreign mirror -- pt. 2: France, 1870-1917. War and Commune, 1870-1871 -- Consensus found : French politics, 1870-1914 -- Reconciling Paris and the provinces -- Class cohesion -- Secularization and religious revival -- Feminism and its frustrations -- Modernism and mass culture -- Rebuilding the nation -- Conclusion : 1914.
Summary:
"For those who lived in the wake of the French Revolution, from the storming of the Bastille to Napoleon's final defeat, its aftermath left a profound wound that no subsequent king, emperor, or president could heal. Children of the Revolution follows the ensuing generations who repeatedly tried and failed to come up with a stable regime after the trauma of 1789. The process encouraged fresh and often murderous oppositions between those who were for, and those who were against, the Revolution's values. Bearing the scars of their country's bloody struggle, and its legacy of deeply divided loyalties, the French lived the long nineteenth century in the shadow of the revolutionary age."--BOOK JACKET.
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