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| Editors' Introduction | ||
| Preface | ||
| Translator's Note | ||
| Introduction | 1 | |
| 1 | Genesis of a Political Symbol: The Bastille, 1715-1789 | 6 |
| Anti-Bastille Journalism: Scandalous Stories of Prisoners | 6 | |
| The Reality-Forming Power of the Symbolic: Prison Practice versus Social Consciousness | 26 | |
| 2 | The Storming of the Bastille: The Historical Event as Collective Symbolic Action | 38 |
| The Storming of the Bastille: Causes and Process | 38 | |
| How a Decisive Event in World History Is "Made": The Symbolic Exaggeration of 14 July 1789 | 47 | |
| 3 | Revolutionary Symbolism under the Sign of the Bastille, 1789-1799: A Prime Example of the Self-Mystification of the French Revolution | 79 |
| Radicalization and Diversification of a Collective Symbol | 79 | |
| The New Heroes: The Role-Model Function and Self-Staging of the Victors of the Bastille | 86 | |
| Martyrs of Freedom, Victims of Despotism: The Triumph of the Prisoners of the Bastille | 106 | |
| "The Patriot" Palloy: Conqueror of the Bastille and Vulgarizer | 118 | |
| The Patriotic Cult of Relics: The Staging of the Bastille Stones in Paris and in the French Provinces | 131 | |
| The Symbolic Foundation of National Identity: Festivals, Speeches, and Monuments Commemorating 14 July 1789 | 147 | |
| Revolutionary Activism under the Sign of the Bastille | 169 | |
| Echo and Export of Bastille Symbolism Abroad: Germany as a Significant Example | 181 | |
| 4 | Bastille Symbolism in Modern France: The Republican Legacy of the French Revolution | 205 |
| Heroic Martyrs of Freedom in History and Literature | 205 | |
| The Storming of the Bastille: A National Act of Faith | 212 | |
| Utilizations in Domestic Politics: From the July Revolution to the Resistance | 220 | |
| Final Remarks: On the Origin and Function of a Historical Symbol | 241 | |
| Appendix | Reports on the Storming of the Bastille, 1789 | 247 |
| Notes | 251 | |
| Works Cited | 287 | |
| Index | 297 |
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