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- Title
Napoleonic Memory in Nineteenth-Century France: The Making of a Liberal Legend.
- Authors
Hazareesingh, Sudhir
- Abstract
Discusses the political and intellectual significance of a veritable cult that emerged to honor French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte after his departure into exile in 1815. French historians' tendency to argue that the Napoleon cult was an ideologically heterogeneous phenomenon; Emergence of a strand of French political thought in the period between 1789 and 1815 which consistently aspired to promote and defend political liberty in opposition to all forms of despotic and arbitrary rule; Portrayal of the emperor as a tragic and vulnerable figure in 1815, betrayed by all those around him, and nobly sacrificing himself after Waterloo to prevent his country from descending into civil war.
- Subjects
NAPOLEON I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821; REIGN of Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1799-1815; CULTS; EMPEROR worship; POLITICAL science; RESISTANCE to government
- Publication
MLN, 2005, Vol 120, Issue 4, p747
- ISSN
0026-7910
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/mln.2005.0119