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.
Valerie Mainz is Senior Lecturer in the School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies at the University of Leeds, UK, having previously worked in both the commercial and subsidised sectors of the theatre. She has curated exhibitions on the French Revolution at the University Gallery, University of Leeds in 1998, at the Musée de la Révolution française, Vizille in 1999 and, together with Richard Williams, at the Henry Moore Institute, Leeds in 2006.
Innehållsförteckning
List of figures.- Preface-. 1. Introduction.- 2. Signing up before the Revolution.- 3. Transforming gloire and military sign up.- 4. Recruitment and Revolution before Thermidor.- 5. Fighting Women.- 6. Fame's two trumpets.- 7. Conclusion.- Notes.- Works Cites.- Index.