We found a match
Your institution may have access to this item. Find your institution then sign in to continue.
- Title
FRENCH SAILING IN THE LATE NINETEENTH CENTURY AND THE DEBATE ABOUT PARISIAN CENTRALISM.
- Authors
JALLAT, DENIS; STUMPP, SÉBASTIEN
- Abstract
The development of sailing in France in the late nineteenth century saw the gradual regularization of the sport. Sailing races were developed as a way of constructing or reinforcing the idea of the nation-state. They became a means of expressing a sense of national belonging. But this was increasingly incompatible with the maintenance of local sailing practices. The Yacht Club de France (YCF), the federated body that oversaw sailing, sought to eradicate local regulations for sailing. Its leaders, who were drawn from the governing elite, developed a bureaucratized and centralized way of managing the sport. They thus underpinned their power and sought to legitimize both their vision of sailing but also their wider concern with the shaping of a uniform national culture. Reactions against their centralism followed, calling into question the YCF's decisions and rules. Splits and new governing organizations developed by the turn of the twentieth century, reflecting in microcosm the wider tension over centralism within the French republic.
- Subjects
FRANCE; SAILING; SPORTS &; state; YACHT clubs; NATIONALISM; DEMOCRATIC centralism; HISTORY; GOVERNMENT policy
- Publication
French History, 2015, Vol 29, Issue 4, p550
- ISSN
0269-1191
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/fh/crv008