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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 3: Centralized State and Republic

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France Since 1871 (HIST 276)

Despite various attempts at reform, France remains the most centralized state in Europe. The organization of the country around the Parisian center was originally a consequence of the French Revolution, which gave birth to the departmental regions. These regions have retained an oppositional relationship towards the metropolitan center. In 1875, an enduring republic was formed despite the competing claims of the Comte de Chambord and the Orleanists. This republic owed its founding largely to support from workers and peasants in the various non-Parisian departments.

0000 - Chapter 1. Paris The Importance of the Capital in a Centralized State
0959 - Chapter 2. Centralization over Centuries France from 1500 to Present
2901 - Chapter 3. Comte de Chambord The "Miracle Baby"
3606 - Chapter 4. Royalism and Religious Revival
4431 - Chapter 5. Birth of the Third Republic

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This course was recorded in Fall 2007.