The French Experience from Republic to Monarchy, 1792-1824

Fourteen wide-ranging chapters by distinguished international scholars treat key aspects of the rapidly changing political and cultural scene in France from the First Republic, through the Consulate and Empire to the death of Louis XVIII in 1824. Falling into two interlinked parts, this collection of original essays explores new developments as well as continuities characterising the transition between the eighteenth century and the nineteenth. It includes chapters on feminism, politics and theatre, elections and plebiscites, revolution and counter-revolution, patronage, universities and education, medicine, music and science.

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DAVID ANDRESS Senior Lecturer in Modern European History, University of Portsmouth IAN H. BIRCHALL Writer specialising in the History of Socialism PATRICE BRET Research Fellow LAURENCE BROCKLISS Fellow and Tutor in Modern History, Magdalen College, Oxford JEAN-CLAUDE CARON Maître de Conférence in Contemporary History, Université de Besancon BARBARA I. COOPER Professor, Department of Languages, Literature and Culture, University of New Hampshire MALCOLM CROOK Professor of French History, Keele University DENISE DAVIDSON Assistant Professor of History, Georgia State University, Atlanta JOEL FELIX Lecturer, Department of French, University of Reading FELICIA GORDON Leverhulme Emeritus Fellowship COLIN LAWSON Chair of Performance Studies, Goldsmiths College, University of London MUNRO PRICE Senior Lecturer, Department of European Studies, University of Bradford DAVID WISNER Associate Professor of History, The American College of Thessaloniki, Greece

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Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors PART ONE New Dawns in the Making of Modern France: The Consequences of Revolutionary Change; M.F.Cross & D.Williams The Gendered Citizen: Marie-Madeleine Jodin (1741-1790); F.Gordon Representing the Sovereign People in the Terror; D.Andress When the Revolution Had to Stop; I.H.Birchall The Uses of Democracy: Elections and Plebiscites in Napoleonic France; M.Crook The Bishop of Pamiers: Political Thought and Experience from the Emigration to the Restoration; M.Price Painters and Public Patronage in the First French Republic: The Ministry of the Interior and the Art of the French Revolution; D.Wisner PART TWO The History of a Renaissance: The French University from the Revolution to the Restoration (1793-1824); J.C.Caron The New Paris Medical School and the Intervention of the Clinic; L.Brockliss Lefèvres Méthode de Clarinette (1802): The Paris Conservatoire at Work; C.Lawson Bonnes Lectures : Improving Women and Society through Literature in Post-Revolutionary France; D.Z.Davidson From Mobilisation to Normalisation: Networks and Scientific Practices for War (1793-1824); P.Bret Avant-garde Aristocrats? French Noblemen, Patents, and the Modernisation of France (1815-1848); J.Felix Inaugural Acts, Prefactory Texts: Paratextual Strategies for Restoring the Monarchy and a Theatre; B.T.Cooper Index