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- Title
The Birth of Modern Commemoration in France: The Tree and the Text.
- Authors
Malaussena, Katia
- Abstract
Grounded in the observation of revolutionary France, this paper seeks to interpret the polymorphic presence of commemoration in human society, as well as its effectiveness as a social and political structural element. More precisely, it develops the argument that modern commemoration in France was built on collective and individual allegiance to the State, envisaged as the ‘absolute ancestor’ and as the root of the regenerated national genealogical tree that was substituted for the ancient, royal and Christian descent of the French kingdom. This paper demonstrates that this institutional and commemorative foundation was based on the remembrance and celebration of national parental figures such as Marianne and various Great Men, as well as on the development of an implicit allegiance to a new text which ensured the preservation, enunciation and power of supreme authority.
- Subjects
FRANCE; FRENCH history; ANNIVERSARIES; ANCESTORS; DESCENT (Kinship); MARIANNE (French emblem); ENUNCIATION
- Publication
French History, 2004, Vol 18, Issue 2, p154
- ISSN
0269-1191
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/fh/18.2.154