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France Since 1871

Yale,, Fall 2007 , Prof. John Merriman

Updated On 02 Feb, 19

Overview

Introduction - The Paris Commune and Its Legacy - Centralized State and Republic - A Nation? Peasants, Language, and French Identity - The Waning of Religious Authority - Workshop and Factory - Mass Politics and the Political Challenge from the Left - Dynamite Club: The Anarchists - General Boulanger and Captain Dreyfus - Cafs and the Culture of Drink - Paris and the Belle poque - French Imperialism (Guest Lecture by Charles Keith) - The Origins of World War I - Trench Warfare - The Home Front - The Great War, Grief, and Memory (Guest Lecture by Bruno Cabanes) - The Popular Front - The Dark Years: Vichy France - Resistance - Battles For and Against Americanization - Vietnam and Algeria - Charles De Gaulle - May 1968 - Immigration

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Lecture 22: Charles De Gaulle

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France Since 1871 (HIST 276)

Charles de Gaulles importance in postwar French political life was matched by his importance in the nations collective imagination. This authority was consciously contrived by de Gaulle, who wished to bear upon his figurative body the will of the French people to maintain the power of their nation in the face of a political environment characterized by the opposition between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. Ultimately, de Gaulles symbolic originality proved more lasting than his political innovations.

0000 - Chapter 1. Current Unrest in the Parisian Suburbs Villiers-le-Bel, December 2007
0448 - Chapter 2. The Death of Charles de Gaulle Legacy of French Nation
1122 - Chapter 3. De Gaulle and the Napoleons The Republican Monarchy
2603 - Chapter 4. Maintaining French Greatness in the Cold War World Third World Influence and Military
3932 - Chapter 5. A Man above The Stylistic Unity of de Gaulle

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This course was recorded in Fall 2007.