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Foreword by Lynn Hunt
The Republican Calendar
Brief Chronology of the French Revolution
Introduction
I. The History of the Revolutionary Festival
The Revolution as Festival
History of the Festivals, History of the Sects
Boredom and Disgust
II. The Festival of the Federation: Model and Reality
Riot and Festival: The "Wild" Federations
The Federative Festivals
The Paris Federation
A New Festival?
The Festival of All the French?
III. The Festival above the Parties: 1792
The Norm and the Exception
Two Antagonistic Festivals?
The Unity of Tragedy
IV. Mockery and Revolution: 1793-1794
The "Other" Festival
Where, When, with Whom?
Reasonable Reason
Violence and the Festival
V. Return to the Enlightenment: 1794-1799
The "Happy Nation"
The System of Brumaire, Year IV
VI. The Festival and Space
Space without Qualities
The Symbolic Mapping-Out
The Renovation of a Ceremonial Space: The Example of Caen
The Resistance of Paris
The Space-Time of the Revolution
VII. The Festival and Time
Beginning
Dividing Up
Commemorating
Ending
VIII. The Future of the Festival: Festival and Pedagogy
"The Schools of the Mature Man"
The Power of Images
The Correct Use of Images
Nothing Goes without Saying
IX. Popular Life and the Revolutionary Festival
A Shameful Ethnology
History of a Failure
Revolutionary Symbolism and Peasant Tradition
The Mai sauvage
A Pedagogical Tree
From the Maypole to the Tree
A Break
X. The Revolutionary Festival: A Transfer of Sacrality
Horror vacui
The Meaning of a Few Borrowings
The Meaning of Purging
Abbreviations
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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Mike Bauer
reviewed Festivals and the French Revolution on July 30, 2014
Festivals and the French Revolution
Ruth Scurr manages to sidestep the polemics that seem natural to a subject like hers. She has that most valuable gift of the historian: implacable impartiality. Her equanimity goes a long way to give her book credibility; if all you know of Robespierre comes from "The Scarlet Pimpernel", this will complicate the issue- in a good way.
As with many such impartial books, however, Scurr's greatest failing is that she tends to vagueness. No substantial analysis of contemporary political doctrine is provided- a real handicap, especially if you're new to this period of history. It is often easy, throughout the course of the book, to forget why Robespierre did what he did, what ideology drives the events of the narrative. Robespierre was responsible for the deaths of many, and he saw mercy as traitorous to his radically democratic views; that we are never given a clear understanding of the ideas that inspired such deadly devotion is a major failing of this book. The prose, likewise, manages to be colorless and dry, though perhaps this is a result of her impartiality. The book, on the whole, is too general and broad to stand on its own. I would recommend this to a reader already well-grounded in pertinent history; unfortunately such a reader is likely already familiar with this material.
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