French Experience from Republic to Monarchy, 1792-1824

MAIRE CROSS is Senior Lecturer in French Studies at the University of Sheffield. Her publications include Early French Feminists, 1830-1940 (with Felicity Gordon), and The Feminism of Flora Tristan (with Tim Gray). Her research interest covers the history of nineteenth century political ideas and the politics of feminism in contemporary France. - DAVID WILLIAMS is Professor of French at the University of Sheffield. His has particular interest in Voltaire and Condorcet and is the author of numerous books and articles on the French Enlightenment, including Voltaire: Literary Critic, Voltaire: Political Writings and, most recently, The Enlightenment.

This volume is a significant contribution to the cultural history of the period 1792-1824...-French Review

• Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors PART ONE New Dawns in the Making of Modern France: The Consequences of Revolutionary Change; M.F.Cross & D.Williams The Gendered Citizen: Marie-Madeleine Jodin (1741-1790); F.Gordon Representing the Sovereign People in the Terror; D.Andress When the Revolution Had to Stop; I.H.Birchall The Uses of Democracy: Elections and Plebiscites in Napoleonic France; M.Crook The Bishop of Pamiers: Political Thought and Experience from the Emigration to the Restoration; M.Price Painters and Public Patronage in the First French Republic: The Ministry of the Interior and the Art of the French Revolution; D.Wisner PART TWO The History of a Renaissance: The French University from the Revolution to the Restoration (1793-1824); J.C.Caron The New Paris Medical School and the Intervention of the Clinic; L.Brockliss Lefèvres Méthode de Clarinette (1802): The Paris Conservatoire at Work; C.Lawson Bonnes Lectures : Improving Women and Society through Literature in Post-Revolutionary France; D.Z.Davidson From Mobilisation to Normalisation: Networks and Scientific Practices for War (1793-1824); P.Bret Avant-garde Aristocrats? French Noblemen, Patents, and the Modernisation of France (1815-1848); J.Felix Inaugural Acts, Prefactory Texts: Paratextual Strategies for Restoring the Monarchy and a Theatre; B.T.Cooper Index