From Subject to Citizen: The Second Empire and the Emergence of Modern French Democracy

409 Pages·1998·20.391 MB·English

by  Sudhir Hazareesingh

From Subject to Citizen

From Subject to Citizen
THE SECOND EMPIRE AND
THE EMERGENCE OF
MODERN FRENCH DEMOCRACY
Sudhir Hazareesingh
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS
PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY
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Hazareesingh, Sudhir.
From subject to citizen : the Second Empire and the emergence
of modern French democracy / Sudhir Hazareesingh.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-691-01699-2 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN 0-691-05848-2 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1. France—History—Second Empire, 1852-1870. 2. Political
culture—France—History—19th century. 3. Democracy-
France—History—19th century. I. Title.
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With love and gratitude

CONTENTS
Illustrations ix
Preface xi
INTRODUCTION
Democracy and Citizenship in Nineteenth-Century French
Political Culture 3
CHAPTER 1
The Paradoxes of Bonapartist Democracy 29
CHAPTER 2
Tradition and Change: Legitimist Conceptions of
Decentralization 96
CHAPTER 3
Between Hope and Fear: The Limits of Liberal Conceptions
of Decentralization 162
CHAPTER 4
The Path Between Jacobinism and Federalism:
Republican Municipalism 233
CONCLUSION
The Second Empire and the Emergence of Republican
Citizenship 306
Bibliography 323
Index 357

ILLUSTRATIONS
1. Principaux Fonctionnaires de l'Empire Frangais, Imagerie
d'Epinal, no. 529. Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris 34
2. Defile des Deputations des Communes de la Savoie devant
Leurs Majestes a Chambery. From L'lllustration, 8
September 1860 47
3. Jean Gilbert Victor Fialin, Due de Persigny, lithography
Bornemann. Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris 74
4. Photograph of Louis Veuillot. Bibliotheque Nationale,
Paris 108
5. Comte Alfred de Falloux, lithography. Bibliotheque
Nationale, Paris 113
6. Due Victor de Broglie, lithography Gregoire et Deneux.
Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris 170
7. Lueien-Anatole Prevost-Paradol, lithography Lemoine.
Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris 180
8. Charles de Remusat, lithography Auguste Bry.
Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris 201
9. Jules Simon, lithography Perdriau et Leroy. Bibliotheque
Nationale, Paris 241
10. Pierre Clement Eugene Pelletan, lithography Perdriau et
Leroy. Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris 256
11. Corps Legislatif, 1869, Deputes de la Seine, photograph
by Appert. Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris 302