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A major contribution to the study of collective identity and memory in France, this book examines a French republican myth: the faith that the nation may be adequately defended only by it is own citizens, in the manner of the French revolutionaries of 1793. Alan Forrest examines the effigy of the citizen army reflected in political speeches, school textbooks, art and creative writing of recognized artisti value throughout the nineteenth century. He reveals that the effigy appealed to notions of equality and social justice, and with time it expanded to comprise Napoleon’s victorious legions, the partisans who drove the German invader in 1814 and the people of Paris who rose in arms to defend the Republic in 1870. More not so long ago it has risked being marginalized by military technology and by the realities of colonial warfare, but it is influence may still be seen in the propaganda of the Great War and of the French Resistance under Vichy.

About the AuthorAlan Forrest is Professor of Modern History at the University of York. His former books include Paris, the Provinces and the French Revolution (2004), Napoleon’s Men: The Soldiers of the Revolution and Empire (2002) and The Revolution in Provincial France: Aquitaine, 1789-1799 (1996).

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