Rethinking France: Les Lieux de mémoire, Volume 3: Legacies

by Pierre Nora (Editor), David P. Jordan (Editor)

Overview

The third volume of Pierre Nora’s monumental work documenting the history and culture of France turns to French manners, mores, and society. While previous volumes focused on specific historical events, people, and institutions within France, the essays in Legacies are concerned with the kinds of things that make up the heart of French culture: conversation, cafés, songs, wine, gallantry, and places imbued with national symbolism such as Notre Dame and Sacré Coeur cathedrals. Linking these diverse topics together is the idea of patrimony—a term used by the French to designate the collective culture of the country or its national heritage—a concept that has undergone radical changes beginning with the Revolution and corresponding to other dramatic ruptures throughout France’s history.

As a whole, these twelve essays by leading French historians add up to an illuminating and well-rounded portrait of those cherished traditions that together form the basic foundation for the distinctive culture of the French.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780226591346
Publisher:	University of Chicago Press
Publication date:	08/15/2009
Edition description:	1
Pages:	520
Product dimensions:	6.80(w) x 9.50(h) x 1.30(d)

About the Author

Pierre Nora is editorial director at Éditions Gallimard. Since 1977, he has been directeur d’études at the École des hautes études en science sociales. He has directed the editorial work on Les Lieux de mémoire since 1984. David P. Jordan is the LAS Distinguished Professor of French History at the University of Illinois at Chicago and the author of Transforming Paris and The Revolutionary Career of Maximilien Robespierre.

Table of Contents

Introduction

      Pierre Nora (translated by Richard C. Holbrook)

1. The Notion of Patrimony

      André Chastel (translated by Nancy Turpin)

2. The Village Church

      Philippe Boutry (translated by Nancy Turpin)

3. The Industrial Arts

      Yves Lequin (translated by Richard C. Holbrook)

4. The Industrial Age

      Louis Bergeron (translated by Richard C. Holbrook)

5. Proverbs, Tales, and Songs

      Daniel Fabre (translated by Margaret Miner)

6. Vine and Wine

      Georges Durand (translated by Hersh Glagov)

7. Gallantry

      Noémi Hepp (translated by Deke Dunisberre)

8. Conversation

      Marc Fumaroli (translated by John Ireland)

9. The Café

      Benoît Lecoq (translated by Nancy Turpin)

10. Notre Dame of Paris

      Alain Erlande-Brandenburg (translated by Janine Maltz)

11. Sacré Coeur of Montmartre

      François Loyer (translated by Janine Maltz)

12. The Collège de France

      Christophe Charle (translated by Gayle Levy)

Illustration Credits

Plan of the Volumes

Index

Editorial Reviews

"This third volume in Nora's Rethinking France series continues the high standards of his previous explorations of the internal essences and external expressions of France's distinctive culture."

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