Day 8 -- Optimism and Pessimism in Late 19th Century Paris

Presentation: Create a Presentation on the Forces Turning Parisians Against One Another in the Second Half of the 19th Century

Create a prezi and the first paragraph of a hypothetical essay on this topic.

 

The Battle for the Soul of France

Frederick Brown, The Battle for the Soul of France; Culture Wars in the Age of Dreyfus (New York: Alfred Knopf, 2010), pp.3-5,

• Warring Memories of the War and the Commune
• Origins of the Conflict

Charles Sowerwine, “The Social and Cultural Bases of Republicanism” in France since 1870: Culture, Politics, and Society (Palgrave: Houndmills, U.K., 2001), pp. 40-44.

• Reason and the Republican Project
• Catholic Conservativism
• Anti-Clericalism

Jean-Marie Mayeur and Madeleine Reberioux, The Third Republic from its Origins to the Great War, 1871-1914 (Cambridge: Canbridge University Press, 1984), pp.,101-115.

• Religious Belief in the 3rd Republic

Léon Augustin L'hermitte, Claude Bernard and pupils, 1889

The Secular Belief in Science and Progress

Maurice Crosland, "Popular science and the arts : challenges to cultural authority  in France under the Second Empire," British Journal for the History of Science, Vol. 34 (2001), 301–322.

• The Popularization of Science
• Jules Verne and the Creation of Science Fiction

Miriam R. Levin, “Bringing the Future to Earth in Paris, 1851–1914"

• A Vision of Progress
• The Ideal of Progress in the Second Empire

Visual Representations of the Future

• The Work of Albert Robida
• Cigarette Cards

Divisions within Society

Eugen Weber, France: Fin de Siècle (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1986)

• Anarchism and Class Conflict in the Fin de Siècle