For the Soul of France【電子書籍】[ Frederick Brown ]

＜p＞Frederick Brown, cultural historian, author of acclaimed biographies of ?mile Zola (“Magnificent”ー＜em＞The＜/em＞ ＜em＞New Yorker＜/em＞) and Flaubert (“Splendid . . . Intellectually nuanced, exquisitely written”ー＜em＞The New Republic＜/em＞) now gives us an ambitious, far-reaching bookーa perfect joining of subject and writer: a portrait of fin-de-si?cle France.＜/p＞ ＜p＞He writes about the forces that led up to the twilight years of the nineteenth century when France, defeated by Prussia in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870?71, was forced to cede the border states of Alsace and Lorraine, and of the resulting civil war, waged without restraint, that toppled Napol?on III, crushed the Paris Commune, and provoked a dangerous nationalism that gripped the Republic.＜/p＞ ＜p＞The author describes how postwar France, a nation splintered in the face of humiliation by the foreignerーPrussiaーdissolved into two cultural factions: moderates, proponents of a secular state (“Clericalism, there is the enemy!”), an．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る