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About this book
This book examines a range of visual images of military recruitment to explore changing notions of glory, or of gloire, during the French Revolution. It raises questions about how this event re-orientated notions of ‘citizenship’ and of service to ‘la Patrie’. The opening lines of the Marseillaise are grandly declamatory: Allons enfants de la Patrie/le jour de gloire est arrivé! or, in English: Arise, children of the Homeland/The day of glory has arrived! What do these words mean in their later eighteenth-century French context? What was gloire and how was it changed by the revolutionary process? This military song, later adopted as the national anthem, represents a deceptively unifying moment of collective engagement in the making of the modern French nation. Valerie Mainz questions this through a close study of visual imagery dealing with the issue of military recruitment. From neoclassical painting to popular prints, suchimages typically dealt with the shift from civilian to soldier, focusing on how men, and not women, were called to serve the Homeland.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Valerie Mainz is Senior Lecturer in the School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies at the University of Leeds, UK, having previously worked in both the commercial and subsidised sectors of the theatre. She has curated exhibitions on the French Revolution at the University Gallery, University of Leeds in 1998, at the Musée de la Révolution française, Vizille in 1999 and, together with Richard Williams, at the Henry Moore Institute, Leeds in 2006.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Days of Glory?
Book Subtitle: Imaging Military Recruitment and the French Revolution
Authors: Valerie Mainz
Series Title: War, Culture and Society, 1750–1850
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-54294-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-54293-9Published: 05 September 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-71302-8Published: 15 April 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-54294-6Published: 26 August 2016
Series ISSN: 2634-6699
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6702
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 298
Number of Illustrations: 38 b/w illustrations, 8 illustrations in colour
Topics: History, general, History of Modern Europe, History of France, Fine Arts, Cultural History