The Cult of the Nation in France

Inventing Nationalism, 1680-1800

David A. Bell

  • 2002 Leo Gershoy Award of the American History Association
In a work of lucid prose and striking originality, Bell offers the first comprehensive survey of patriotism and national sentiment in early modern France, and shows how the dialectical relationship between nationalism and religion left a complex legacy that still resonates in debates over French national identity today.
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David A. Bell is Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at the Johns Hopkins University.