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France's Third Republic confronts historians and political scientists with what seems a paradox: it is at once France's most long-lived experiment with republicanism and a regime remembered primarily for chronic instability and spectacular scandal...



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The Third Republic's civic project.... continues to be celebrated by French republicans for its successful articulation of the principles of good citizenship. Yet, the elites of the Third Republic sought from the outset to contain the political intervention of the masses.... The limitations identified by Lehning were in many respects very real, and his work serves as a valuable corrective to those French historians and politicians who continue to view the Third Republic through rose-tinted spectacles.

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To Be a Citizen

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      Publisher: Cornell University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 09/10/2001
      ISBN13: 9780801438882, 978-0801438882
      ISBN10: 0801438888

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      France's Third Republic confronts historians and political scientists with what seems a paradox: it is at once France's most long-lived experiment with republicanism and a regime remembered primarily for chronic instability and spectacular scandal...



      Trade Review

      The Third Republic's civic project.... continues to be celebrated by French republicans for its successful articulation of the principles of good citizenship. Yet, the elites of the Third Republic sought from the outset to contain the political intervention of the masses.... The limitations identified by Lehning were in many respects very real, and his work serves as a valuable corrective to those French historians and politicians who continue to view the Third Republic through rose-tinted spectacles.

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