Contested Symbols: Vichy France and the Legacy of the French Revolution

dc.citation.firstpage5en_US
dc.citation.issueNumberSpringen_US
dc.citation.journalTitleRice Historical Reviewen_US
dc.citation.lastpage24en_US
dc.citation.volumeNumberIVen_US
dc.contributor.authorSatterfield, Emmaen_US
dc.contributor.illustratorWilliamson, Francesen_US
dc.date.accessioned2019-05-28T17:18:36Zen_US
dc.date.available2019-05-28T17:18:36Zen_US
dc.date.issued2019en_US
dc.descriptionWritten for History 457: Modern Revolutions 1776, 1789, 1917, 1989, 2011 -- Dr. Peter C. Caldwellen_US
dc.description.abstractThis paper examines how Vichy, the authoritarian government in France throughout most of the Second World War, reckoned with the legacy of the French Revolution. I investigate this relationship through the regime’s treatment of four revolutionary symbols: the figure Marianne, the anthem “La Marseillaise,” the national holiday of Bastille Day, and the slogan of Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité. Because these symbols were deeply embedded in French social and political life, I argue that Vichy could neither fully reject nor embrace them; instead, it pursued a middle ground by twisting the symbols’ meanings and introducing alternatives in line with the traditionalism and ethnocentrism of its National Revolution. In doing so, Vichy attempted to replace the French Republic and the revolutionary values that it stood for with its own vision of the French past, present, and future.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipRice History Departmenten_US
dc.format.extent20 ppen_US
dc.identifier.citationSatterfield, Emma. Williamson, Frances (illustrator). "Contested Symbols: Vichy France and the Legacy of the French Revolution." <i>Rice Historical Review,</i> IV, no. Spring (2019) Rice University: 5-24. https://doi.org/10.25611/p7dz-2345.en_US
dc.identifier.digitalSatterfield-RHR-2019-Springen_US
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.25611/p7dz-2345en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1911/106064en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherRice Universityen_US
dc.relation.IsPartOfSeriesSpring 2019en_US
dc.titleContested Symbols: Vichy France and the Legacy of the French Revolutionen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.type.dcmiTexten_US
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