Days of Glory?: Imaging Military Recruitment and the French Revolution

by Valerie Mainz

Book Overview

This book examines a range of visual images of military recruitment to explore changing notions of glory, or of gloire, during the French Revolution. It raises questions about how this event re-orientated notions of 'citizenship' and of service to 'la Patrie'. The opening lines of the Marseillaise are grandly declamatory: Allons enfants de la Patrie/le jour de gloire est arriv or, in English: Arise, children of the Homeland/The...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349713023
• ISBN13: 9781349713028
• Release Date: April 2021
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 298 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.3"