SCHOOL OF DIVINITY, HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY

ACADEMIC SESSION 2014-2015

304M Power and Traditions: France 1799–1900

30 credits 11 weeks

PLEASE NOTE CAREFULLY:

The full set of school regulations and procedures is contained in the Undergraduate Student Handbook which is available online at your MyAberdeen Organisation page. Students are expected to familiarise themselves not only with the contents of this leaflet but also with the contents of the Handbook. Therefore, ignorance of the contents of the Handbook will not excuse the breach of any School regulation or procedure.

You must familiarise yourself with this important information at the earliest opportunity.

COURSE CO-ORDINATOR/COURSE TEAM Dr Elizabeth C. Macknight [email protected]

Discipline Administration: Mrs Barbara McGillivray/Mrs Gillian Brown 50-52 College Bounds Room CBLG01

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TIMETABLE Seminars are held twice a week, specific details are on MyAberdeen.

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on Class Certificates). You will be expected to have read and digested the readings for that week. At the one-hour seminar a lecture-style presentation will be given by the course co-ordinator. At the two-hour seminar the first hour will normally be set aside for one or more presentations and/or screenings of film segments, followed by questions and a short break. Class discussion of the readings will normally take place during the second hour with the course co- ordinator serving as moderator and facilitator.

Students can view the University Calendar at http://www.abdn.ac.uk/students/13891.php

COURSE DESCRIPTION Questions about who exercised power and why resonated at every level of nineteenth-century French society. The Revolution of 1789 had brought about fundamental reforms to the political and social order in France. It set down the roots of the French republican tradition whose supporters became locked in an ongoing ideological struggle against conservative political and social elites. This course examines the myriad forms that power took in French society, from Napoleon’s coup d’état of 18 Brumaire to the early Third Republic. It deals with the power of political and military leaders to legislate and lead armies. It investigates the gendered implications of power operating within families and between men and women. It also unpacks the ways in which class shaped power relations, and the significance of class-based traditions, within the social fabric of nineteenth-century France. All essential sources for the course are available in English.

INTENDED AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES The course aims to provide an introduction to key events, themes, and issues in the history of modern France, focussing on the period from 1799 to 1900. By the end of this course you will be able to: • show familiarity with political, social, and cultural developments in the history of nineteenth-century France; • appreciate different historiographical approaches; • evaluate the strength of an argument; • identify and analyse a range of primary and secondary sources;

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This course will encourage the development of IT and related skills by - requiring word-processed essays and seminar presentations that may employ illustrations, graphics, recorded speech or music, videos, etc. You are encouraged to use the Internet but also to exercise discrimination with regard to the material available. The course will encourage the development of Course Document

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analytical skills by introducing you to the use, criticism and comparison of primary documents.

Practical skills fostered by the course include the ability • to build bibliographies on specific topics; • to locate and gather primary and secondary sources; • to demonstrate a detailed appreciation of the recent historical scholarship in connection with a chosen essay topic; • to give an oral presentation on a specific topic; • to retain, recall and apply relevant information in examination conditions.

This course should help to build transferable skills including the ability • to listen carefully to others; • to speak to a group; • to read slowly and attentively; • to take effective notes; • to synthesise a range of information; • to construct and present coherent arguments both orally and in written form; • to develop teamwork skills required for effective interaction in a seminar situation; • to motivate oneself to work autonomously and to meet deadlines; • to provide and receive academic criticism in a constructive fashion.

LECTURE/SEMINAR PROGRAMME Week 1 S1 Introduction S2 Napoleonic France Week 2 S3 War and ‘French Europe’ S4 Legacies of Empire Week 3 S5 The Bourbon Restoration, 1814–30 S6 Views on the emancipation of women Week 4: Election of Class Representatives 2015

- S7 The 1830 Revolution S8 The July monarchy, 1830–48 2014 |

- Week 5: Class Meeting S9 The 1848 Revolution S10 The Second Republic 1848–52

Week 6: No classes, reading week

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Week 7 S11 The Second Empire, 1852–70 S12 Haussmann’s Paris Week 8: Level Meeting / Essay due, Wednesday no later than 12 p.m. S13 The Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1 S14 The Paris Commune Week 9 S15 Establishing the Third Republic S16 Republican reforms Week 10: Student Course Evaluation Form Exercise S17 French imperialism S18 The Dreyfus Affair, 1894–1906 Week 11: Staff-Student Liaison Committee Meeting S19 A ‘belle époque’? S20 World Exhibition, Paris 1900

SEMINAR READINGS Week 1 No set readings

Week 2 primary ‘Justifying the coup of Brumaire’ ‘The Concordat, 10 September 1801’ ‘The Consulate for Life, 1802’ ‘Founding the Empire, 1804’ ‘The Civil Code, March 1803─March 1804’ ‘Imposing the Code Napoléon on the Empire’ in Philip G. Dwyer and Peter McPhee, eds, The French Revolution and Napoleon: A Sourcebook (London, 2002): 136–9, 149–56, 165–8. secondary Hazareesingh, Sudhir, The Legend of Napoleon (London, 2004): 1─14

Week 3 primary ‘Prosper Enfantin, 1831’ 2015

- ‘Charles Fourier, 1832’ ‘La Femme Libre [“Jeanne-Victoire”], 1832’ 2014 |

- ‘Joseph de Maistre, 1821’ ‘Jules Michelet, 1845’ in Susan Groag Bell & Karen M. Offen, eds, Women, the Family, and Freedom: The Debate in Documents vol. 1, 1750–1880 (Stanford, 1983): 143–7, 169–73.

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Grogan, Susan K. French Socialism and Sexual Difference (Houndsmills, 1992): 1─19.

Week 4 primary Stendhal, The Red and the Black: A Chronicle of 1830 trans. Burton Raffel (New York, 2003): 359–66. secondary Mansel, Philip, Paris between Empires 1814─1852 (London, 2001): 280─306.

Week 5 primary ‘Popular disorder in the provinces’ ‘Popular demonstrations in Paris: 17 March 1848’ ‘The election campaign’ ‘Disillusioned republicans’ in Price, Roger, ed., Documents on the French Revolution of 1848 (Basingstoke, 1996): 61–71, 100–1. secondary McPhee, Peter, The Politics of Rural Life: Political Mobilization in the French Countryside 1846–1852 (Oxford, 1992): 75–105.

Week 6 No classes

Week 7 primary Marx, Karl, The 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte (London, 2001): 125–44. secondary Jordan, David P., ‘Haussmann and Haussmannisation: The Legacy for Paris’, French Historical Studies, vol. 27 (2004): 87–113.

Week 8 primary Document 1.8 The Proclamation of the Paris Commune (28 March 1871) Document 1.9 The Paris Commune and Popular Democracy (21 March 1871) Document 1.12 The Defeat of the Paris Commune (29 May 1871) 2015

- Document 4.1 Women and the Paris Commune of 1871 (8 May 1871) in William Fortescue, The Third Republic in France, 1870–1940: Conflicts and 2014 |

- Continuities (London, 2000): 12–15, 19–20, 81. secondary Eichner, Carolyn J., Surmounting the Barricades: Women in the Paris Commune (Bloomington, 2004): 17–35.

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primary Document 2.5 Republicanism and Anti-clericalism (4 May 1877) Document 2.8 The Republicanism of Jules Ferry: Education (6 June 1889) Document 3.12 The Separation of Church and State (9 December 1905) Document 4.6 Secondary School Education for Girls (21 December 1880) in William Fortescue, The Third Republic in France, 1870–1940: Conflicts and Continuities (London, 2000): 31–2, 36–7, 73–4, 89–90. secondary Stone, Judith F., ‘Anticlericals and Bonnes Soeurs: The Rhetoric of the 1901 Law of Associations’, French Historical Studies, vol. 23 (2000): 103–28.

Week 10 primary Document 3.2 The Bordereau (n.d.) Document 3.3 The Arrest of Captain Alfred Dreyfus (15 October 1894) Document 3.4 The Degradation of Dreyfus (5 January 1895) Document 3.8 Emile Zola’s ‘J’Accuse...!’ (13 January 1898) in William Fortescue, The Third Republic in France, 1870–1940: Conflicts and Continuities (London, 2000): 54–7, 65–6. secondary Bredin, Jean-Denis, The Affair: The Case of Alfred Dreyfus (London, 1987): 245–99.

Week 11 primary Proust, Marcel, In Search of Lost Time vol. 2 Within a Budding Grove (London, 2002): 425–35. secondary Weber, Eugen, France Fin de Siècle (Cambridge, 1986): 51–82.

SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY Further reading is an essential part of any course in History and will deepen your understanding and enjoyment of the period and the discipline of history. The select bibliography below provides points of departure for further reading on the topics covered in the course. The footnotes and bibliographies of these books and articles are two sources of further reading; the search-features of the 2015

- library catalogue, browsing the open shelves, and consulting the course co- ordinator are other ways forward. A major outcome of a university education 2014 |

- should be an ability to find information on any topic within your field. You are encouraged to show initiative in developing this ability.

On-line databases Modern History Sourcebook

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Meta-Lib E-Resources sign-in J-Stor (Athens sign-in; or access via QML catalogue). Go to advanced search and use suitable keywords search; this will produce a large number of relevant articles. Some useful websites: H-France contains links to book reviews and forum discussion Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection. An excellent site containing historical, political, administrative, and relief maps

Highly recommended as a general work on nineteenth-century France: McPhee, Peter, A Social History of France, 1789–1914 2 ed. (Basingstoke, 2004) Available on Ebrary and in paperback

Novels, short stories, and films: Many works by nineteenth-century French authors have been translated into English and/or adapted to film. We will read extracts from Stendhal and Proust. The list below offers further ideas for sampling the literature.

Paris tales: stories trans. Helen Constantine (Oxford, 2004) is an excellent collection of short stories George Sand, Indiana Victor Hugo, Les Misérables Balzac, Le Père Goriot [Eng. trans. Old Goriot] Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary Emile Zola, Au bonheur des dames [Eng. trans. The Ladies Paradise], Germinal, Nana, and many others… Guy de Maupassant, Bel-Ami Joris-Karl Huysmans, A rebours [Eng. trans. Against Nature] Colette, Le Pur et l’impur [Eng. trans. The Pure and the Impure]

Further reading: Accampo, Elinor A., Rachel G. Fuchs, and Mary Lynn Stewart, eds., Gender and the Politics of Social Reform in France, 1870–1914 (Baltimore, 1995). Agulhon, Maurice, Marianne into Battle: Republican Imagery and Symbolism in France, 1789–1880 Translated by Janet Lloyd (Cambridge, 1981). ———. The Republican Experiment, 1848–1852. Translated by Janet Lloyd, 2015

- Vol. 2, The Cambridge History of Modern France (Cambridge, 1983). Aldrich, Robert, Greater France: A History of French Overseas Expansion 2014 |

- (Basingstoke, 1996). Aminzade, Ronald, Ballots and Barricades: Class Formation and Republican Politics in France, 1830–1871 (Princeton, 1993). Atkin, Nicholas, and Frank Tallett, eds., The Right in France: From Revolution to Le Pen 2 ed. (London, 2003).

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1996). Auspitz, Katherine, The Radical Bourgeoisie: The Ligue de l'enseignement and the Origins of the Third Republic, 1866–1885 (Cambridge, 1982). Birkett, Jennifer, The Sins of the Fathers: Decadence in France 1870–1914 (London, 1986). Boime, Albert, The Academy and French Painting in the Nineteenth Century (London, 1971). ———. Art and the French Commune: Imagining Paris after War and Revolution (Princeton, 1995). Bredin, Jean-Denis, The Affair: The Case of Alfred Dreyfus (London, 1987). Broers, Michael, Europe after Napoleon: Revolution, Reaction, and Romanticism, 1814–1848 (Manchester, 1996). ———. Europe under Napoleon 1799–1815 (New York, 1996). Brown, Howard G., and Judith A. Miller, Taking Liberties: Problems of a New Order from the French Revolution to Napoleon (Manchester, 2002). Bullard, Alice, Exile to Paradise: Savagery and Civilisation in Paris and the South Pacific, 1790–1900 (Stanford, 2000). Cahm, Eric, The Dreyfus Affair in French Society and Politics (London, 1996). ———. Politics and Society in Contemporary France (1789–1971) (London, 1972). Carmona, Michel, Haussmann: His Life and Times, and the Making of Modern Paris Translated by Patrick Camiller (Chicago, 2002). Chafer, Tony and Amanda Sackur, eds., Promoting the Colonial Idea: Propaganda and Visions of Empire in France (Basingstoke, 2002). Charle, Christophe, A Social History of France in the Nineteenth Century (Oxford, 1994). Chenut, Helen Harden, The Fabric of Gender: Working-Class Culture in Third Republic France (University Park, 2005). Clark, Linda L., The Rise of Professional Women in France: Gender and Public Administration since 1830 (Cambridge, 2000). ———. Schooling the Daughters of Marianne: Textbooks and the Socialization of Girls in Modern French Primary Schools (Albany, 1984). Clark, Timothy J., The Painting of Modern Life: Paris in the Art of Manet and His Followers Revised ed. (Princeton, 1999). Coffin, J. G., The Politics of Women's Work: The Paris Garment Trades, 1750– 1915 (Princeton, 1996). 2015

- Collingham, Hugh, The July Monarchy: A Political History of France, 1830–1848 (London, 1988). 2014 |

- Conklin, Alice L., A Mission to Civilize: The Republican Idea of Empire in France and West Africa, 1895–1930 (Stanford, 1997). Cooper, Frederick and Ann Laura Stoler, Tensions of Empire: Colonial Cultures in a Bourgeois World (Berkeley, 1997). Crook, Malcolm, Napoleon Comes to Power: Democracy and Dictatorship in

Course Document Revolutionary France, 1795–1804 (Cardiff, 1998).

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Cross, Maíre F., and David Williams, eds., The French Experience from Republic to Monarchy, 1792–1824: New Dawn in Politics, Knowledge and Culture (New York, 2000). Davies, Peter, The Extreme Right in France 1789 to the Present: From De Maistre to Le Pen (London, 2002). Desan, Suzanne, The Family on Trial in Revolutionary France (Los Angeles, 2004). Dwyer, Philip G., and Peter McPhee, eds., The French Revolution and Napoleon: A Sourcebook (London, 2002). Eichner, Carolyn J., Surmounting the Barricades: Women in the Paris Commune (Bloomington, 2004). Ellis, Jack D., The Physician-Legislators of France: Medicine and Politics in the Early Third Republic, 1870–1914 (Cambridge, 1990). Elwitt, Sanford, The Making of the Third Republic: Class and Politics in France, 1868–1884 (Baton Rouge, 1975). Evans, Martin, ed., Empire and Culture: The French Experience (New York, 2004). Ford, Caroline, Divided Houses: Religion and Gender in Modern France (Ithaca, 2005). Fortescue, William, The Third Republic in France, 1870–1940: Conflicts and Continuities (London, 2000). Forth, Christopher E., The Dreyfus Affair and the Crisis of French Manhood (Baltimore, 2004). Fuchs, Rachel G., Gender and Poverty in Nineteenth-Century Europe, New Approaches to European History (Cambridge, 2005). ———. Poor and Pregnant in Paris: Strategies for Survival in the Nineteenth Century (New Brunswick, 1992). Furet, François, Revolutionary France, 1770–1880 Translated by Antonia Nevill (Oxford, 2005). Gluck, Mary, Popular Bohemia: Modernism and Urban Culture in Nineteenth- Century Paris (Cambridge, MA, 2005). Gorrara, Claire and Rachel Langford, eds., France since the Revolution: Texts and Contexts (London, 2003). Gould, Roger V., Insurgent Identities: Class, Community, and Protest in Paris from 1848 to the Commune (Chicago, 1995). Griffiths, Richard, The Use of Abuse: The Polemics of the Dreyfus Affair and Its 2015

- Aftermath (Oxford, 1991). Grogan, Susan K., French Socialism and Sexual Difference: Women and the 2014 |

- New Society, 1803–44 (London, 1992). Gullickson, Gay L., Unruly Women of Paris: Images of the Commune (Ithaca, 1996). Harrison, Carol E., The Bourgeois Citizen in Nineteenth-Century France: Gender, Sociability, and the Uses of Emulation (Oxford, 1999).

Course Document Harriss, Joseph, The Eiffel Tower: Symbol of an Age (London, 1976).

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Harsin, Jill, Barricades: The War of the Street in Revolutionary Paris, 1830– 1848 (New York, 2002). Hazareesingh, Sudhir, From Subject to Citizen: The Second French Empire and the Emergence of Modern French Democracy (Princeton, 1998). ———. Political Traditions in Modern France (Oxford, 1994). Higgs, David, Nobles in Nineteenth-Century France: The Practice of Inegalitarianism (Baltimore, 1987). Hilden, Patricia, Working Women and Socialist Politics in France, 1880–1914: A Regional Study (Oxford, 1986). Holmes, Diana, French Women's Writing, 1848–1994 (London, 1996). Horne, Alistair, The French Army and Politics, 1870–1970 (London, 1984). ———. Seven Ages of Paris (London, 2002). Hustvedt, Asti, ed., The Decadent Reader: Fiction, Fantasy, and Perversion from Fin-de-Siècle France (New York, 1998). Johnson, Martin P., The Paradise of Association: Political Culture and Popular Organizations in the Paris Commune of 1871 (Ann Arbor, 1996). Jones, Kathleen and Françoise Verges, ‘Women of the Paris Commune’, Women's Studies International Forum vol. 14 (1991): 491–503. Jordan, David P., Transforming Paris: The Life and Labors of Baron Haussmann (New York, 1995). Kete, Kathleen, The Beast in the Boudoir: Petkeeping in Nineteenth-Century Paris (Berkeley, 1994). Kroen, Sheryl, Politics and Theater: The Crisis of Legitimacy in Restoration France, 1815–1830 (Berkeley, 2000). Larkin, Maurice, Church and State after the Dreyfus Affair: The Separation Issue in France (London, 1974). ———. Religion, Politics and Preferment in France since 1890: La Belle Époque and Its Legacy (Cambridge, 1995). Lehning, James R., To Be a Citizen: The Political Culture of the Early French Third Republic (Ithaca, 2001). Magraw, Roger, France, 1800–1914: A Social History (London, 2002). Mansel, Philip, Paris between Empires: Monarchy and Revolution, 1814–1852 (New York, 2003). Margadant, Jo Burr, ed. The New Biography: Performing Femininity in Nineteenth-Century France (Berkeley, 2000). Marrinan, Michael, Painting Politics for Louis-Philippe: Art and Ideology in 2015

- Orléanist France, 1830–1848 (New Haven, 1988). Mayeur, Jean-Marie, and Madeleine Réberioux, The Third Republic from Its 2014 |

- Origins to the Great War, 1871–1914 Translated by J. R. Foster (Cambridge, 1984). Maza, Sarah, The Myth of the French Bourgeoisie: An Essay on the Social Imaginary, 1750–1850 (Cambridge, MA, 2003). McMillan, James F., France and Women, 1789–1914: Gender, Politics, and

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———. Housewife or Harlot: The Place of Women in French Society, 1870– 1940 (Brighton, 1981). ———. Napoleon III (London, 1991). McPhee, Peter, The Politics of Rural Life: Political Mobilization in the French Countryside 1846–1852 (Oxford, 1992). ———. A Social History of France, 1789–1914 2 ed. (Basingstoke, 2004). Moulin, Annie, Peasantry and Society in France since 1789 Translated by M.C. and M.F. Cleary (Cambridge, 1991). Nelms, Brenda, The Third Republic and the Centennial of 1789 (New York, 1987). Noiriel, Gérard, The French Melting Pot: Immigration, Citizenship, and National Identity (Minneapolis, 1996). ———. Workers in French Society in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (New York, 1990). Nora, Pierre, ed., Realms of Memory: Rethinking the French Past 3 vols. (New York, 1996–98). Nord, Philip G., The Republican Moment: Struggles for Democracy in Nineteenth-Century France (Cambridge, MA, 1995). Nye, Robert A., Crime, Madness, and Politics in Modern France: The Medical Concept of National Decline (Princeton, 1984). ———. Masculinity and Male Codes of Honor in Modern France (Oxford, 1993). Peabody, Sue, and Tyler Stovall, eds., The Color of Liberty: Histories of Race in France (Durham, 2003). Perrot, Michelle, ed., From the Fires of Revolution to the Great War, Vol. 4, A History of Private Life (Cambridge, MA, 1990). Pilbeam, Pamela, Republicanism in Nineteenth-Century France (Basingstoke, 1995). Pinkney, David H., Napoleon III and the Rebuilding of Paris (Princeton, 1958). Plessis, Alain, The Rise and Fall of the Second Empire, 1852–1871 Translated by Jonathan Mandelbaum (Cambridge, 1985). Porch, Douglas, The Conquest of Morocco (London, 1986). ———. The French Foreign Legion: A Complete History of the Legendary Fighting Force (New York, 1991). Price, Roger, A Concise History of France 2 ed. (Cambridge, 2005). ———. The French Second Empire: An Anatomy of Political Power (Cambridge, 2015

- 2001). ———. A Social History of Nineteenth-Century France (London, 1987). 2014 |

- Przyblyski, Jeannene M. and Dean de la Motte, eds., Making the News: Modernity and the Mass Press in Nineteenth-Century France (Amherst, 1999). Reynolds, Siân, ed., Women, State and Revolution: Essays on Power and Gender in Europe since 1789 (Brighton, 1986).

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Lynn M. Case. (Philadelphia, 1966). Scott, Joan W., Gender and the Politics of History (New York, 1988). ———. Only Paradoxes to Offer: French Feminists and the Rights of Man (Cambridge, MA, 1996). Shafer, David A., The Paris Commune: French Politics, Culture, and Society at the Crossroads of the Revolutionary Tradition (New York, 2005). Simon, Walter M., ed., French Liberalism 1789–1848 (New York, 1972). Skuy, David, Assassination, Politics, and Miracles: France and the Royalist Reaction of 1820 (Montreal, 2003). Smith, Bonnie G., Ladies of the Leisure Class: The Bourgeoises of Northern France in the Nineteenth Century (Princeton, 1981). Sowerwine, Charles, France since 1870: Culture, Politics and Society (Basingstoke, 2001). ———. Sisters or Citizens? Women and Socialism in France since 1876 (Cambridge, 1982). Spitzer, Alan, The French Generation of 1820 (Princeton, 1987). Stewart, Mary Lynn, Women, Work and the French State: Labour Protection and Social Patriarchy, 1879–1919 (London, 1989). Stora, Benjamin, Algeria, 1830–2000: A Short History (Ithaca, 2001). Stovall, Tyler and Georges Van den Abbeele, eds., French Civilization and Its Discontents: Nationalism, Colonialism, Race (Lanham, 2003). Strumingher, Laura S. What Were Little Girls and Boys Made Of? Primary Education in Rural France, 1830–1880 (Albany, 1983). Waelti–Walters, Jennifer, and Steven C. Hause, eds., Feminisms of the Belle Époque: A Historical and Literary Anthology (Lincoln, 1994). Walter, Jakob, and Marc Raeff, The Diary of a Napoleonic Foot Soldier (New York, 1991). Walton, Whitney, Eve's Proud Descendants: Four Women Writers and Republican Politics in Nineteenth-Century France (Stanford, 2000). Weisberg, Gabriel P., and Petra Ten-Doesschate Chu, eds., The Popularization of Images: Visual Culture under the July Monarchy (Princeton, 1994). Willms, Johannes, Paris, Capital of Europe: From the Revolution to the Belle Epoque. Translated by Eveline L. Kanes (New York, 1997). Woloch, Isser, Napoleon and His Collaborators (New York, 2001). Woolf, Stuart, Napoleon's Integration of Europe (London, 1991). Wright, Gordon, France in Modern Times: From the Enlightenment to the 2015

- Present 3 ed. (New York, 1981). Zanten, David Van, Building Paris: Architectural Institutions and the 2014 |

- Transformation of the French Capital, 1830–1870 (Cambridge, 1994).

ASSESSMENT Assessment is based on: •

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• one 3,000-word essay at 40%; • one 20-minute presentation at 10% of the final assessment (of which 5% is decided by the course co-ordinator and the other 5% is from peer assessment).

Click to view the University Level Descriptors (ANNEX A). Click to view the University Assessment Scale Band Descriptors (ANNEX B).

ESSAY Your 3,000-word essay is due Wednesday Week 8 not later than 12p.m. You must write on a topic agreed in advance with the course co-ordinator. It is expected that the essay will be submitted in word-processed format and must be accompanied by a bibliography and foot- or endnotes conforming to established academic conventions.

Essays will be returned with a mark taken from the Common Assessment Scale with written comments. All essays will be returned individually, providing you with the opportunity to discuss your essay, techniques of essay writing, and other aspects of the course with your tutor. It is assumed that you will use the select bibliography in this guide to assist in constructing your own reading list.

CLASS PRESENTATION Your 20-minute presentation will take place in the seminar assigned to you in Week 1. You must choose a topic from the options listed below. You are expected and encouraged to discuss your presentation, in advance, with the course co-ordinator during her consultation hours. You may make use of PowerPoint in your presentation but it is not essential to do so.

The 20-minute presentation constitutes 10% of the final mark for the course. Half of this mark will be decided by the course co-ordinator, while the other half will be the result of peer assessment by class members. At the end of each seminar, the course co-ordinator will collect the anonymous peer assessment forms and tabulate the results. You may discuss, in general terms, the outcome of this process with the course co-ordinator after your

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Week 3 i) Who was Madame de Staël and what were her thoughts on the Bourbon restoration of 1814? Course Document

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ii) Who was Flora Tristan and what methods did she use to promote her views on women’s emancipation?

Week 4 i) What signs were there of the emergence of collective consciousness among workers around 1830? ii) Why did Charles X and his ministers decide to attack Algiers in 1830 and what were some of the consequences of that decision?

Week 5 i) To what extent was the 1848 Revolution a ‘failure’? ii) Who was Pierre-Joseph Proudhon and what were his thoughts on men and women’s roles in society?

Week 7 i) Why did Napoleon III send troops into Mexico and what happened as a result of this ‘great idea’? ii) In what ways did ‘Haussmannisation’ improve the quality of city living for Parisians?

Week 8 i) What were the Empress Eugénie’s actions and responsibilities during the Franco-Prussian War? ii) How do you explain the extent of violence that marked the Paris Commune?

Week 9 i) What is freemasonry and why did it attract French republicans? ii) Could a monarchy have been restored in France of the 1870s and 1880s?

Week 10 i) Choose a colony of France and discuss how and why the French pursued a ‘civilising mission’ there. ii) Why did the trial of Dreyfus escalate into a national Affair?

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ASSESSMENT DEADLINES Your 3,000-word essay is due Wednesday Week 8 not later than 12p.m. Course Document

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SUBMISSION ARRANGEMENTS The Department requires TWO hard and ONE electronic copy of all assignments, as follows: Hard Copy: Two hard copies together with an Assessment cover sheet, typed and double spaced – this copy should have your ID number CLEARLY written on the cover sheet, with NO name and NO signature but EVERYTHING ELSE filled in – and should be delivered to the History Department [Drop-off boxes located in CB008, 50-52 College Bounds]. Electronic Copy: One copy submitted through Turnitin via MyAberdeen.

EXAMINATION The exam paper will contain twelve questions. You must answer three questions of your choosing. The duration of the exam is three hours.

Past exam papers can be viewed at http://www.abdn.ac.uk/library/learning- and-teaching/for-students/exam-papers/.

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