1st Edition
France Since the Liberation Between Exceptionalism and Convergence
By Gino Raymond
Copyright 2024
266 Pages
by
Routledge
266 Pages
by
Routledge
266 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book focuses on the tension between the modernising thrust that places France on a trajectory of convergence with comparable liberal democracies and the defence of a national specificity that can act as a brake, complicating France’s relationship with its neighbours, its present and its past.
This ambivalence in French political and social life stems from the conscious attempt to rebuild... Read more
Introduction
1. The Republic That Never Died
2. Tidying up History
3. End of Empire and the Pursuit of a Modern France
4. The European Horizon: Championing the Nation and National Champions
5. The Enduring Extra-Territoriality of Nationhood
6. Squaring the Circle: French Exceptionalism in a Converging Europe
7. The Republic ‘One and Indivisible’: A Unique Consensus?
8. The Decline of an Exceptional Model of Leadership
Conclusion
Biography
Gino Raymond is Emeritus Professor of French at Bristol University. His research interests range widely across French literature, politics, and society.
