Republican passions demonstrates the crucial role of family and friendship networks in the creation of the French Third Republic.
Based on the family archives of Leon Laurent-Pichat, journalist, Deputy and Life Senator, this study paints a rich picture of republican intimacy, sociability and political activity during the Second Empire and early Third Republic. It explores republican friendships and family connections as men and women worked together for the cause. In republican circles, as the book illustrates, the intimate and political realms were not separate but deeply intertwined and interdependent.
By:
Susan K. Foley
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 216mm,
Width: 140mm,
Spine: 18mm
Weight: 392g
ISBN: 9781526190819
ISBN 10: 1526190818
Series: Studies in Modern French and Francophone History
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 01 July 2025
Audience:
General/trade
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College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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ELT Advanced
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Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Introduction 1 ‘Born alone and sad’: family passions, 1823–51 2 ‘My brothers in poetry’: passionate friendship and political upheaval, 1841–52 3 ‘Placing our pen at the service of liberty’: friendship networks and the republican press, 1851–65 4 ‘Pure happiness’: shaping a bourgeois family for the Republic, 1851–75 5 ‘Bound together forever’: friendship, family bonds and republican solidarity, 1861–70 6 ‘The revolution was so beautiful and pure’: Family, friendship and trauma, 1868–71 7 ‘Steadfast and enduring fidelity’: friendship and honour in the fledgling Republic, 1871–76 8 ‘Such hope is in the air’: bourgeois marriage and republican politics, 1851–80 9 ‘The task is magnificent and enormous’: family politics in the ‘republic of republicans’, 1877–85 Conclusion Index -- .
Susan K. Foley is Principal Fellow in the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies at the University of Melbourne.
Reviews for Republican Passions: Family, Friendship and Politics in Nineteenth-Century France
'Susan Foley’s Republican Passions is a beautifully written reconstruction of the life of Léon Laurent-Pichat, a man at the heart of republican politics in second half of the nineteenth century. Based on a rich trove of archival materials, it demonstrates how the new political formations of the era were supported by personal ties, emotional dispositions and cultural practices and sheds new light on the origins of the Third Republic.' Sarah Horowitz, Professor of History, Washington and Lee University -- .
