Days of Glory?: Imaging Military Recruitment and the French Revolution (War, Culture and Society, 1750 –1850)

by ValerieMainz (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2016

  $121.85

  This book examines a range of visual images of military recruitment to explore changing notions of glory, or of gloire, during the French Revolution. This military song, later adopted as the national anthem, represents a deceptively unifying moment of collective engagement in the making of the modern French nation.