La Belle France

Catalog description

The construction of the French identity; France and the French empire in early modern and modern period; absolutism; the Enlightenment; the Revolutions from 1789 to 1968; the Third Republic; Vichy and post- war France; Napoleon and the French military; women’s experience and struggle for gender equality; French visual and literary traditions; dance, ballet, and theater in France; marriage, love, childhood and family; tour- ism, consumption, and food; the representations of France in the arts and fi lms.