Rethinking France : Les Lieux de m?moire, Volume 4: Histories and Memories - Pierre Nora

Rethinking France

Les Lieux de m?moire, Volume 4: Histories and Memories

By: Pierre Nora (Editor), David P. Jordan (Editor)

Hardcover | 15 July 2010 | Edition Number 1

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The fourth and final volume in Pierre Nora's monumental series documenting the history and culture of France takes a self-reflective turn. The eleven essays collected here consider the texts and places that make up the collective memory of the history of France, a country whose people are extraordinarily self-conscious of history and their place in it. Distinguished contributors look at the medieval "Grands chroniques de France" and the monasteries and chancelleries that produced them, the establishment of Versailles as a historical museum, and Pierre Larousse's "Grand dictionnaire," an important touchstone of cultural memory. Other essays range in topic from the creation of the National Archives, a curiously organized catacomb of manuscripts, to "Annales," a publication begun in 1929 that profoundly revitalized the study of history in France. Taken together these richly detailed essays fully explore the multifaceted ways France has institutionalized its history and are, along with the rest of "Les Lieux de memoire," a crucial part of that process.
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"The grandest, most ambitious effort to dissect, interpret, and celebrate the French fascination with their own past." - "Los Angeles Times" "A magnificent achievement.... It is not only a work of history, it is also something of a historical document itself." - "New Republic"

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