LEADER 04055oam 2200661 a 450 001 9910778456803321 005 20231113214019.0 010 $a0-674-03844-4 024 7 $a10.4159/9780674038448 035 $a(CKB)1000000000805510 035 $a(OCoLC)608687938 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10328788 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000240664 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11186249 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000240664 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10265738 035 $a(PQKB)11571246 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3300612 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3300612 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10328788 035 $a(OCoLC)923112371 035 $a(DE-B1597)574297 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674038448 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000805510 100 $a20040106d2004 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe Saint-Napoleon $ecelebrations of sovereignty in nineteenth-century France /$fSudhir Hazareesingh 210 1$aCambridge, Mass. :$cHarvard University Press,$d2004. 215 $a1 online resource (xiv, 307 pages) $cillustrations 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a0-674-01341-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tIllustrations --$tPreface --$tIntroduction: Civic Festivities in Nineteenth-Century France --$t1 A Common Sentiment ofNational Glory --$t2 Variations on Provincial Themes --$t3 Proud to Be French --$t4 Honorable and Honored Citizens --$t5 Incidents, Accidents, Excesses --$t6 All the Majesty of the State --$t7 The Immense Space between Heaven and Earth --$t8 We Have Our Own Music --$t9 Eroding Bonapartist Sovereignty --$t10 Legitimist Coldness, Republican Enthusiasm --$tConclusion: Festivity, Identity, Civility --$tNotes --$tPrimary Sources --$tIndex 330 $aIn 1852, President Louis Napoleon of France declared that August 15--Napoleon Bonaparte's birthday--would be celebrated as France's national day. Leading up to the creation of the Second Empire, this was the first in a series of attempts to "Bonapartize" his regime and strengthen its popular legitimacy. Across France, public institutions sought to draw local citizens together to celebrate civic ideals of unity, order, and patriotism. But the new sense of French togetherness was fraught with tensions. Drawing on a wealth of archival evidence, Sudhir Hazareesingh vividly reconstructs the symbolic richness and political complexity of the Saint-Napoleon festivities in a work that opens up broader questions about the nature of the French state, unity and lines of fracture in society, changing boundaries between public and private spheres, and the role of myth and memory in constructing nationhood. The state's Bonapartist identity was at times vigorously contested by local social, political, and religious groups. In various regions, people used the national day to celebrate their own communities and to honor their hometown veterans; but elsewhere, the revival of republican sentiment clashed sharply with imperial attitudes. Sophisticated and gracefully written, this book offers rich insights into modern French history and culture. 606 $aPolitical culture$zFrance$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aPolitical customs and rites$zFrance$y19th century 606 $aBonapartism$zFrance$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aFestivals$zFrance 606 $aSymbolism in politics$zFrance 607 $aFrance$xHistory$ySecond Empire, 1852-1870 615 0$aPolitical culture$xHistory 615 0$aPolitical customs and rites 615 0$aBonapartism$xHistory 615 0$aFestivals 615 0$aSymbolism in politics 676 $a944.07 700 $aHazareesingh$b Sudhir$01085875 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910778456803321 996 $aThe Saint-Napoleon$93746514 997 $aUNINA