The French experience from republic to monarchy, 1792-1824 : new dawns in politics, knowledge, and culture

A member of the editorial board of Annales historiques de la Re Âvolution franc Ëaise, he is currently working on the history of Front Matter....Pages i-xii Front Matter....Pages 1-1 New Dawns in the Making of Modern France: the Consequences of Revolutionary Change....Pages 3-11 The Gendered Citizen: Marie Madeleine Jodin (1741–90)....Pages 12-27 Representing the Sovereign People in the Terror....Pages 28-41 When the Revolution Had to Stop....Pages 42-57 The Uses of Democracy. Elections and Plebiscites in Napoleonic France....Pages 58-71 The Bishop of Pamiers: Political Thought and Experience from the Emigration to the Restoration....Pages 72-87 Painters and Public Patronage in the First French Republic: the Ministry of the Interior and the Art of the French Revolution....Pages 88-103 Front Matter....Pages 105-105 The History of a Renaissance: the French University from the Revolution to the Restoration (1792–1824)....Pages 107-119 The New Paris Medical School and the Invention of the Clinic....Pages 120-139 Lefèvre’s Méthode de Clarinette (1802): the Paris Conservatoire at Work....Pages 140-154 Bonnes lectures: Improving Women and Society through Literature in Post-Revolutionary France....Pages 155-171 From Mobilisation to Normalisation: Scientific Networks and Practices for War (1792–1824)....Pages 172-195 Avant-garde aristocrats? French Noblemen, Patents, and the Modernisation of France (1815–48)....Pages 196-211 Inaugural Acts, Prefatory Texts: Paratextual Strategies for Restoring the Monarchy and a Theatre....Pages 212-226 Back Matter....Pages 227-232 Annotation Fourteen wide-ranging chapters by distinguished international scholars treat key aspects of the rapidly changing political and cultural scene in France from the First Republic, through the Consulate and Empire to the death of Louis XVIII in 1824. Falling into two interlinked parts, this collection of original essays explores new developments as well as continuities characterising the transition between the eighteenth century and the nineteenth. It includes chapters on feminism, politics and theatre, elections and plebiscites, revolution and counter-revolution, patronage, universities and education, medicine, music and science