Colette's Republic: Work, Gender, and Popular Culture in France

by PatriciaA.Tilburg (Author)

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  2010

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  In France's Third Republic, secularism was, for its adherents, a new faith, a civic religion founded on a rabid belief in progress and the Enlightenment conviction that men (and women) could remake their world. And yet with all of its pragmatic smoothing over of the supernatural edges of Catholicism, the Third Republic engendered its own...