The Right in France From Revolution to Le Pen

by Atkin, Nicholas; Tallett, Frank

• ISBN13: 9781860649165
• ISBN10: 1860649165
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-11-08
• Publisher: I. B. Tauris

Summary

The Right in France explains what the Rightist tradition in France is, where it started and how it was developed in Frances' long and complex history of political change. Beyond the narrative history of political ideas, it also looks at such issues as gender, empire, ethnicity, and race--the policy lynchpin of today's Front National. Tracing the history of the Right from the revolution of 1789 to Le Pen today, it provides fascinating insights into Bonapartism, monarchism, the Dreyfus affair, the nature of French Fascism, Catholicism, the army, Vichy, and Gaullism.

Author Biography

Nicholas Atkin and Frank Tallet are Lecturers in History, University of Reading.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Preface to the Second Edition	p. ix
List of Contributors	p. x
Abbreviations	p. xiii
Introduction: Les Droites Commencent Ici, 1789-94	p. 1
The First Napoleonic Regime, 1799-1815: The Origins of the Positivist Right or the Zenith of Jacobinism?	p. 19
Orleanism: A Doctrine of the Right?	p. 35
Legitimism and the Cult of Bourbon Royalty	p. 51
Hippolyte Taine and the Making of History	p. 71
The French Right and the Overseas Empire	p. 89
From Nostalgia to Pragmatism: French Royalism and the Dreyfus Watershed	p. 115
Duty, Discipline and Authority: The French Officer Elites between Professionalism and Politics, 1900-1962	p. 129
Counter Revolution in Conspiracy, 1935-37	p. 161
Class, Gender and Populism: The Parti Populaire Francais in Lyon, 1936-40	p. 183
A Broad Church: French Catholics and National-Socialist Germany	p. 215
Sexing the Subject: Women and the French Right, 1938-58	p. 231
The Internal Dynamics of Gaullism, 1958-69	p. 245
Neither Right Nor Left? Towards an Integrated Analysis of the Front National	p. 261
You Can Pour New Wine into Old Bottles: The French Right since 1958	p. 277
Towards a Sixth Republic? Jean-Marie Le Pen and the 2002 Elections	p. 293
Index	p. 305
Maps and Tables
Age of Right Wing Activists in the Rhone	p. 190
Occupation of Right-Wing Extremist in the Rhone	p. 191
Map of the City of Lyon	p. 192
Votes for the Front National Since 1986	p. 284
A Statistical Profile of Len Pen Voters in 1988	p. 285
The Meaning of Left and Right (1)	p. 288
The Meaning of Left and Right (2)	p. 288
The Decline of Mainstream Parties	p. 289
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