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

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dc.citation.firstpage5
dc.citation.issueNumberSpring
dc.citation.journalTitleRice Historical Review
dc.citation.lastpage24
dc.citation.volumeNumberIV
dc.contributor.authorSatterfield, Emma
dc.contributor.illustratorWilliamson, Frances
dc.date.accessioned2019-05-28T17:18:36Z
dc.date.available2019-05-28T17:18:36Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.descriptionWritten for History 457: Modern Revolutions 1776, 1789, 1917, 1989, 2011 -- Dr. Peter C. Caldwell
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.
dc.description.sponsorshipRice History Department
dc.format.extent20 pp
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.
dc.identifier.digitalSatterfield-RHR-2019-Spring
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.25611/p7dz-2345
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1911/106064
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherRice University
dc.relation.IsPartOfSeriesSpring 2019
dc.titleContested Symbols: Vichy France and the Legacy of the French Revolution
dc.typeJournal article
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