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For The Soul Of France
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Author : Frederick Brown
language : en
Publisher: Anchor
Release Date : 2010-01-26
For The Soul Of France written by Frederick Brown and has been published by Anchor this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-01-26 with History categories.
Frederick Brown, cultural historian, author of acclaimed biographies of Émile Zola (“Magnificent”—The New Yorker) and Flaubert (“Splendid . . . Intellectually nuanced, exquisitely written”—The New Republic) now gives us an ambitious, far-reaching book—a perfect joining of subject and writer: a portrait of fin-de-siècle France. He writes about the forces that led up to the twilight years of the nineteenth century when France, defeated by Prussia in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–71, was forced to cede the border states of Alsace and Lorraine, and of the resulting civil war, waged without restraint, that toppled Napoléon III, crushed the Paris Commune, and provoked a dangerous nationalism that gripped the Republic. The author describes how postwar France, a nation splintered in the face of humiliation by the foreigner—Prussia—dissolved into two cultural factions: moderates, proponents of a secular state (“Clericalism, there is the enemy!”), and reactionaries, who saw their ideal nation—militant, Catholic, royalist—embodied by Joan of Arc, with their message, that France had suffered its defeat in 1871 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.” Brown shows us how Paris’s most iconic monuments that rose up during those years bear witness to the passionate decades-long quarrel. At one end of Paris was Gustave Eiffel’s tower, built in iron and more than a thousand feet tall, the beacon of a forward-looking nation; at Paris’ other end, at the highest point in the city, the basilica of the Sacré-Coeur, atonement for the country’s sins and moral laxity whose punishment was France’s defeat in the war . . . Brown makes clear that the Dreyfus Affair—the cannonade of the 1890s—can only be understood in light of these converging forces. “The Affair” shaped the character of public debate and informed private life. At stake was the fate of a Republic born during the Franco-Prussian War and reared against bitter opposition. The losses that abounded during this time—the financial loss suffered by thousands in the crash of the Union Génerale, a bank founded in 1875 to promote Catholic interests with Catholic capital outside the Rothschilds’ sphere of influence, along with the failure of the Panama Canal Company—spurred the partisan press, which blamed both disasters on Jewry. The author writes how 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, when the Third Republic fell and the Vichy government replaced it, with Marshal Pétain heralded as the latest incarnation of Joan of Arc, France’s savior . . .
The Soul Of France
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Author : Reuben Saillens
language : en
Publisher: London : Morgan & Scott
Release Date : 1916
The Soul Of France written by Reuben Saillens and has been published by London : Morgan & Scott this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1916 with France categories.
The Soul Of France Classic Reprint
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Author : Reuben Saillens
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015-07-13
The Soul Of France Classic Reprint written by Reuben Saillens and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-13 with Religion categories.
Excerpt from The Soul of France The aim of this book is to afford the English reader a cursory view of the spiritual history of France. Few historians concern themselves mainly with the Soul of nations; wars and dynasties are foremost in their works. The names of two or three great military men, and of one or two genial writers or artists: that is all that the man in the street knows of any people beside his own. That is particularly the case, we believe, with regard to the mutual acquaintance of those two near neighbours, the English and the French. And this explains how it is that, since the beginning of this War, France has been the wonder of the world, by the quality of her moral fibre, and her unexpected power of endurance in trials more severe than she has known for centuries. These pages will show that France has ever been a chivalrous defender of ideals, ever athirst for something higher and better. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
The Soul And Guts Of France
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Author : John Steinbeck
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1952
The Soul And Guts Of France written by John Steinbeck and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1952 with France categories.
Notre Dame
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Author : Agnès Poirier
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2020-04-02
Notre Dame written by Agnès Poirier and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-04-02 with Social Science categories.
WINNER OF THE 2022 FRENCH HERITAGE SOCIETY BOOK AWARD The profound emotion felt around the world upon seeing images of Notre-Dame in flames opens up a series of questions: Why was everyone so deeply moved? Why does Notre-Dame so clearly crystallise what our civilisation is about? What makes ‘Our Lady of Paris’ the soul of a nation and a symbol of human achievement? What is it that speaks so directly to us today? In answer, Agnès Poirier turns to the defining moments in Notre-Dame’s history. Beginning with the laying of the corner stone in 1163, she recounts the conversion of Henri IV to Catholicism, the coronation of Napoleon, Victor Hugo’s nineteenth-century campaign to preserve the cathedral, Baron Haussmann’s clearing of the streets in front of it, the Liberation in 1944, the 1950s film of The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, starring Gina Lollobrigida and Anthony Quinn, and the state funeral of Charles de Gaulle, before returning to the present. The conflict over Notre-Dame’s reconstruction promises to be fierce. Nothing short of a cultural war is already brewing between the wise and the daring, the sincere and the opportunist, historians and militants, the devout and secularists. It is here that Poirier reveals the deep malaise – gilet jaunes and all – at the heart of the France.
The Soul Of France 1916
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Author : Reuben Saillens
language : en
Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLC
Release Date : 2014-08-07
The Soul Of France 1916 written by Reuben Saillens and has been published by Literary Licensing, LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-07 with categories.
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1916 Edition.
Soul Of France
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Author : REUBEN. SAILLENS
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018
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The Soul Of France
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Author : Maurice Barrès
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1916
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Stalking The Soul
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Author : Marie-France Hirigoyen
language : en
Publisher: Helen Marx Books
Release Date : 2004
Stalking The Soul written by Marie-France Hirigoyen and has been published by Helen Marx Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Business & Economics categories.
Emotional abuse exists all around us--in families and work. Stalking the Soul is a call to recognize and understand emotional abuse and, most importantly, overcome it. Sophisticated and accessible, it is vital reading for victims and health professionals.
The End Of The Soul
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Author : Jennifer Hecht
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2005-12-20
The End Of The Soul written by Jennifer Hecht and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-12-20 with Social Science categories.
On October 19, 1876 a group of leading French citizens, both men and women included, joined together to form an unusual group, The Society of Mutual Autopsy, with the aim of proving that souls do not exist. The idea was that, after death, they would dissect one another and (hopefully) show a direct relationship between brain shapes and sizes and the character, abilities and intelligence of individuals. This strange scientific pact, and indeed what we have come to think of as anthropology, which the group's members helped to develop, had its genesis in aggressive, evangelical atheism. With this group as its focus, The End of the Soul is a study of science and atheism in France in late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It shows that anthropology grew in the context of an impassioned struggle between the forces of tradition, especially the Catholic faith, and those of a more freethinking modernism, and moreover that it became for many a secular religion. Among the adherents of this new faith discussed here are the novelist Emile Zola, the great statesman Leon Gambetta, the American birth control advocate Margaret Sanger, and Arthur Conan Doyle, whose Sherlock Holmes embodied the triumph of ratiocination over credulity. Boldly argued, full of colorful characters and often bizarre battles over science and faith, this book represents a major contribution to the history of science and European intellectual history.