- Title Pages
- Introduction
- 1 The Enlightenment
- 2 The First Republic
- 3 The Second Republic
- 4 The Republicans of the Second Empire
- 5 The Third Republic
- 6 War and the Republic
- 7 The Republic and Vichy
- 8 The Fourth Republic
- 9 The Fifth Republic
- 10 Liberty
- 11 Equality
- 12 Fraternity
- 13 Democracy
- 14 Laicity
- 15 Citizenship
- 16 Universalism
- 17 The Republic and Justice
- 18 The State
- 19 The Civilizing Mission
- 20 Parité
- 21 The Press
- 22 Times of Exile and Immigration
- 23 The USA, Sister Republic
- 24 The Local
- 25 The Republic and the <i>Indigènes</i>
- 26 Immigration
- 27 The Immigration History Museum
- 28 Decolonization and the Republic
- 29 The Suburbs
- 30 The Republic and the Veil
- 31 Antisemitism, Judeophobia, and the Republic
- 32 Feminism and the Republic
- 33 Gender and the Republic
- 34 Order and Disorder in the Family
- 35 Children and the State
- 36 Commemoration
- 37 Intellectuals and the Republic
- 38 Cultural Policy
- American Perspectives on the French Republic
- Beyond the “Republican Model”
- Contributors
The Local
The Local
- Chapter:
- (p.213) 24 The Local
- Source:
- The French Republic
- Author(s):
Stéphane Gerson
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
This chapter analyzes how the political project of the commune or the “petite patrie” came into its own as the birthplace of national opinion, a counterpart to autocracy and bureaucratic centralization, and a place of social experimentation. The republican conception of the local as place of initiative and renewal, of integration and edification, of pacification and legitimation, has sometimes faded from view; however, the local has repeatedly promised and sometimes delivered what the central state, the capital, and national frameworks could not provide on their own. The chapter shows how the Third Republic had predicated French grandeur and its own long-term prospects not only on an imperial civilizing mission, but also on these ventures of internal diversity and a local sense of belonging.
Keywords: local, petite patrie, commune, social experimentation, republican, national frameworks, Third Republic, internal diversity, local
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- Title Pages
- Introduction
- 1 The Enlightenment
- 2 The First Republic
- 3 The Second Republic
- 4 The Republicans of the Second Empire
- 5 The Third Republic
- 6 War and the Republic
- 7 The Republic and Vichy
- 8 The Fourth Republic
- 9 The Fifth Republic
- 10 Liberty
- 11 Equality
- 12 Fraternity
- 13 Democracy
- 14 Laicity
- 15 Citizenship
- 16 Universalism
- 17 The Republic and Justice
- 18 The State
- 19 The Civilizing Mission
- 20 Parité
- 21 The Press
- 22 Times of Exile and Immigration
- 23 The USA, Sister Republic
- 24 The Local
- 25 The Republic and the <i>Indigènes</i>
- 26 Immigration
- 27 The Immigration History Museum
- 28 Decolonization and the Republic
- 29 The Suburbs
- 30 The Republic and the Veil
- 31 Antisemitism, Judeophobia, and the Republic
- 32 Feminism and the Republic
- 33 Gender and the Republic
- 34 Order and Disorder in the Family
- 35 Children and the State
- 36 Commemoration
- 37 Intellectuals and the Republic
- 38 Cultural Policy
- American Perspectives on the French Republic
- Beyond the “Republican Model”
- Contributors