Realms of Memory

by Nora, Pierre; Goldhammer, Arthur; Kritzman, Lawrence D.

• ISBN13: 9780231106344
• ISBN10: 0231106343
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-09-01
• Publisher: Columbia Univ Pr

Summary

Archives, monuments, celebrations:there are not merely the recollections of memory but also the foundations of history. Symbols, the third and final volume in Pierre Nora's monumental Realms of Memory, includes groundbreaking discussions of the emblems of France's past by some of the nation's most distinguished intellectuals. The seventeen essays in this book consider such diverse "sites" of memory as the figures of Joan D'Arc and Decartes, the national motto of "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity", the tricolor flag and the French language itself. Pierre Nora's closing essay on commemoration provides a culminating overview of the series. Offering a new approach on history, culture, French studies and the studies of symbols, Realms of Memory reveals how the myriad meanings we attach to places and events constitute our sense of history.

Table of Contents

Introduction	ix
Pierre Nora
PART I. MODELS	3	(122)
I The Land, Armand Fremont	3	(34)
II The Cathedral, Andre Vauchez	37	(34)
III The Court, Jacques Revel	71	(54)
PART II. BOOKS	125	(124)
IV Le Tour de la France par deux enfants: The Little Red Book of the Republic Jacques and Mona Ozouf	125	(26)
V Lavisse, The Nation's Teacher, Pierre Nora	151	(36)
VI Vidal de La Blache's Geography of France, Jean - Yves Guiomar	187	(24)
VII Marcel Proust's Remembrance of Things Past, Antoine Compagnon	211	(38)
PART III. SINGULARITIES	249	(252)
VIII La Coupole, Marc Fumaroli	249	(58)
IX Monuments to the Dead, Antoine Prost	307	(26)
X The Good Soldier Chauvin, Gerard de Puymege	333	(30)
XI Street Names, Daniel Milo	363	(28)
XII The Pulpit, the Rostrum, and the Bar, Jean Starobinski	391	(52)
XIII Gastronomy, Pascal Ory	443	(26)
XIV The Tour de France, Georges Vigarello	469	(32)
Notes	501	(56)
Index of Names	557	(12)
Index of Subjects	569