2. Poitiers and the Poitou-Charentes: A Descent into Ia France Profonde

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. General lntroduction 1
5. BOOK ONE. FRAMING THE BICENTENNIAL
6. 1. Commemoration: Aporias, Dilemmas, and Opportunities 15
7. 2. Resurgent Counterrevolutionaries and New Age Antirevolutionaries 41
8. 3. Velvet Dreams and Satanic Nightmares: The Range of Bicentennial Rejectionism 63
9. 4. The Vendee: Trope and Idee-Force 84
10. 5. The Church 112
11. 6. The Presidential Mode of Commemoration 134
12. 7. The Political Parties: Managing Memory in the Microcosm and the 148 Macrocosm 148
13. BOOK TWO. PRODUCING THE BICENTENNIAL
14. 1. Toward a Bicentennial Project: From the World's Fair to the Grand Orient 177
15. 2. A Man for All Seasons: Edgar Faure as Bicentennial Missionary 194
16. 3. Aile Guten Dinge Sind Drei: Jean-Noel Jeanneney and the Mission Impossible 220
17. 4. The Opening of the Bicentennial Season 247
18. 5. Preparing the Climax: From Jungle Fever to Summit Fever 270
19. 6. Goude's Opera: The Marseillaise Revisited 302
20. 7. Anticlimax, Zenith, and Finale 331
21. BOOK THREE. THE BICENTENNIAL AND THE NATION
22. 1. Mobilization for Commemoration 347
23. 2. Poitiers and the Poitou-Charentes: A Descent into Ia France Profonde 374
24. 3. The Bicentennial from Below: In the Communist Penumbra 396
25. 4. Paris: Bicentennial Accommodation and Resistance 425
26. 5. The Bicentennial Destiny of Robespierre 441
27. Farewell 470
28. Notes 487
29. Index 559