The Construction of National Memory in the 'Era of Commemoration"
Authors
Elizabeth Rechniewski
Abstract
The construction of the French nation through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries offers a case study in the attempt to found the legitimacy of one or other political regime on the appropriation or suppression of memory.
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