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Article: The Cult of the Nation in France: Inventing Nationalism, 1680-1800.(Book Review)
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- The Historian
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- March 22, 2005
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The Cult of the Nation in France: Inventing Nationalism, 1680-1800. By David Bell. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2003. Pp. xiv, 304. $18.95.)
This prize-winning study leads readers through a multifaceted analysis of the genesis of French nationalism beginning in the 1680s under Louis XIV and ending with the establishment of the First Republic over a century later. While David Bell concedes medieval and even sixteenth-century antecedents of French nationhood, he insists on drawing two crucial distinctions that set modern French nationalism apart from these earlier progenitors. Reacting to the Sun King's stifling rule, there first developed a sense of ...