Religion and the Politics of Time: Holidays in France from Louis XIV Through Napoleon

by NoahShusterman (Author)

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  Illustrated
  2010

  $92.18

  A study of the changes in religious holidays in Old Regime and Revolutionary France. It highlights the importance of cultural and religious history in the transformations of French society that took place from the mid-seventeenth through the early nineteenth century and tells a story of the development of a French national calendar of holidays.