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TY - JOUR
T1 - Romance, Religion and the Republic: Bruno's Le Tour de la France par deux enfants.
AU - Strachan, John
N1 - Based on an MA dissertation submitted to the University of Warwick in September 2001 and a paper delivered at the Graduate Seminar in History, University of Manchester, March 2003. RAE_import_type : Journal article RAE_uoa_type : History
PY - 2004/3/1
Y1 - 2004/3/1
N2 - This essay explores how previous understandings of Bruno's most celebrated text have tended to assimilate authorial intent with the traditional interpretation of Republican modernization. Early readings of the Tour de France were coloured by a largely uncritical acknowledgment of the extent to which the Third Republic had revolutionized education and forged a new and durable sense of national identity. But historians emphasize that change rarely took place in the short term, and Bruno is similarly indicative of the complex compromise that was worked out between the Republic and the religious establishment, and between regional and national identity in the years 1870–1914. This essay uses the work of Michelet and others to demonstrate the co-existence in the Tour de France of Romantic, religious and modernist narratives of the nation.
AB - This essay explores how previous understandings of Bruno's most celebrated text have tended to assimilate authorial intent with the traditional interpretation of Republican modernization. Early readings of the Tour de France were coloured by a largely uncritical acknowledgment of the extent to which the Third Republic had revolutionized education and forged a new and durable sense of national identity. But historians emphasize that change rarely took place in the short term, and Bruno is similarly indicative of the complex compromise that was worked out between the Republic and the religious establishment, and between regional and national identity in the years 1870–1914. This essay uses the work of Michelet and others to demonstrate the co-existence in the Tour de France of Romantic, religious and modernist narratives of the nation.
U2 - 10.1093/fh/18.1.96
DO - 10.1093/fh/18.1.96
M3 - Journal article
VL - 18
SP - 96
EP - 118
JO - French History
JF - French History
SN - 1477-4542
IS - 1
ER -