- Foreword [Lynn Hunt]
- The Republican Calendar
- Brief Chronology of the French Revolution
- Introduction
- I. The History of the Revolutionary Festival
- The Revolution as Festival
- History of the Festivals, History of the Sects
- Boredom and Disgust
- II. The Festival of the Federation: Model and Reality
- Riot and Festival: The “Wild” Federations
- The Federative Festivals
- The Paris Federation
- A New Festival?
- The Festival of All the French?
- III. The Festival above the Parties: 1792
- The Norm and the Exception
- Two Antagonistic Festivals?
- The Unity of Tragedy
- IV. Mockery and Revolution: 1793–1794
- The “Other” Festival
- Where, When, with Whom?
- Reasonable Reason
- Violence and the Festival
- V. Return to the Enlightenment: 1794–1799
- The “Happy Nation”
- The System of Brumaire, Year IV
- VI. The Festival and Space
- Space without Qualities
- The Symbolic Mapping-Out
- The Renovation of a Ceremonial Space: The Example of Caen
- The Resistance of Paris
- The Space-Time of the Revolution
- VII. The Festival and Time
- Beginning
- Dividing Up
- Commemorating
- Ending
- VIII. The Future of the Festival: Festival and Pedagogy
- “The Schools of the Mature Man”
- The Power of Images
- The Correct Use of Images
- Nothing Goes without Saying
- IX. Popular Life and the Revolutionary Festival
- A Shameful Ethnology
- History of a Failure
- Revolutionary Symbolism and Peasant Tradition
- The Mai sauvage
- A Pedagogical Tree
- From the Maypole to the Tree
- A Break
- X. The Revolutionary Festival: A Transfer of Sacrality
- Horror vacui
- The Meaning of a Few Borrowings
- The Meaning of Purging
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Festivals and the French Revolution
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Publication Date: 10/01/1991
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