Vallès, Jules, revolutionary 10, 56, 239, 241
Varlin, Eugène, revolutionary 235, 241, 244
Vaugeois, Henri, royalist 276, 277
Velay, the 94
Vendée
counter-revolution in 26, 29, 72
myth of 72–3, 78
and defence of Rome (1870) 337
and war of 1870 231
Vercingétorix, Gallic chief, cult of 415, 424, 436, 443
Verdun, battle of (1916) 16
Véret, Désirée, feminist 161, 162
Verlaine, Paul, poet 394, 395, 396, 399
Verne, Jules, writer 403, 408
Vernet, Horace, artist 184, 186
Vérone, Maria, lawyer 383
Versailles, Hall of Battles at château de 186
National Assembly at (1871) 241
troops sent from to defeat Paris Commune 243–4, 351
Veuillot, Louis, Catholic propagandist 136, 139, 231, 244, 337
Vianney, Jean-Marie-Baptiste, curé d’Ars 8, 118–21
Vidal de la Blache, Paul, geographer 307
Vienna, Treaty of (1815) 206, 221
Vierzon 307
Vigny, Alfred de, writer 116, 147, 171
Villèle, Comte de, politician 36, 43, 46–7, 48, 133
Villemessant, Hippolye de, newspaper owner 192
Vincent de Paul Bailly, Assumptionist 13
Viviani, René, politician 12, 268, 285, 288
Vogüé, Eugène-Melchior de, diplomat 348, 416, 420
Voilquin, Susanne, feminist 161, 162
Voltaire 231
centenary of death (1878) 341–2
Vuillard, Édouard, artist 396
Waddington, William, politician 252, 254, 342
Wagner, Richard 399
Wagram, battle of (1809) 37
Waldeck-Rousseau, René, politician 272–3, 278, 279, 281, 282, 321, 358, 423
Walewski, Count Alexander, politician 60, 116
Wallon, William, politician 251, 291–2
war
revolutionary–Napoleonic 1, 21–2, 25, 33–4, 37–9, 41–2
Crimean (1853–6) 218, 225
Franco-Prussian (1870–71) 3, 11, 229–39
First World (1914–18) 434–9
Washington, George, American president 56, 212, 232
Waterloo, battle of (1815) 6, 44, 45, 72, 73, 208, 215
Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of 42, 43
Wendel, Charles de, industrialist 62
Westphalia, Kingdom of (1807) 33
Wilde, Oscar, writer 394
William I, king of Prussia, emperor of Germany 231
William II, emperor of Germany 14, 425
Wilson, Daniel, presidential aide 262
wine industry 313, 315, 318
Wissembourg, battle of (1870) 230
Wollstonecraft, Mary, feminist 143
women
and charity 154, 159–60
and divorce 4, 6, 10, 43–4, 353, 365, 370–71
and education 10, 150–53, 339, 342, 345, 353, 358, 375–9
and employment 151, 152, 154–7, 372–81
and marriage 141–50, 153–4, 364–72
and politics 158–9, 160–66, 381–9
and French Revolution 158–9
and Paris Commune 243, 368
see also salons
working classes
division of 96–8, 319–20
formation of 94–6, 317–19
organization of 98–101, 162–3, 320–23
see also compagnonnage, labour movementa, mutual aid societies, trade
Wustemberg, Jacques-Henri, merchant 114
Yver, Colette, writer 380–81
Yvetot, Georges, anarchist 427
Zola, Émile, writer
career and circle 391, 392, 394
and the Dreyfus Affair 274–5, 278, 356, 357, 405, 422
and Flaubert 191
and Manet 198, 392
L’Assommoir 403
Au bonheur des dames 323–4
Germinal 317, 320
Nana 367, 369, 392,
La Terre 311, 392
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Table of Contents
Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Maps
Introduction: The Children of the Revolution
Children of the Revolution
PART ONE: France, 1799–1870
1. Revolution or Consensus?: French Politics, 1799–1870
2. Discovering France
3. A Divided Society
4. Religion and Revolution
5. ‘Le Malheur d’être femme’
6. Artistic Genius and Bourgeois Culture
7. The French in a Foreign Mirror
PART TWO: France, 1870–1914
8. War and Commune, 1870–1871
9. Consensus Found: French Politics, 1870–1914
10. Reconciling Paris and the Provinces
11. Class Cohesion
12. Secularization and Religious Revival
13. Feminism and its Frustrations
14. Modernism and Mass Culture
15. Rebuilding the Nation
Conclusion: 1914
Illustrations
Notes
Index
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