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- Title
¿Un «régimen honesto»? Soberanía y virtud en la República francesa (1870-1940).
- Authors
Monier, Frédéric
- Abstract
From 1880 to 1930, France had the reputation for being the European country that suffered most from the plague of corruption, an impression driven by the abundance of media-driven scandals. The Third Republic embraced the public moral of the French Revolution which linked sovereignty and virtue, and, for this reason, honesty had to be proven in order to gain legitimacy to govern. The article demonstrates that the abundance of scandals was not only a result of intense ideological conflicts between republicans and new critical actors from the left and the right. Scandals were also a result of the forging of a new consensus and system of public values based upon the fear of national decay and the right to civic indignation.
- Subjects
FRANCE; POLITICAL corruption; SOVEREIGNTY; FRENCH Third Republic; FRENCH Revolution, 1789-1799; REPUBLICANS
- Publication
Ayer: Revista de Historia Contemporánea, 2019, Vol 115, Issue 3, p51
- ISSN
1134-2277
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.55509/ayer/115-2019-03