Inventing Luxembourg National Cultivation of Culture
Inventing Luxembourg National Cultivation of Culture Edited by Joep Leerssen Editorial Board John Breuilly, Ina Ferris, Patrick Geary, John Neubauer, Tom Shippey, Anne-Marie Th iesse VOLUME 1 Inventing Luxembourg Representations of the Past, Space and Language from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Century By Pit Péporté, Sonja Kmec, Benoît Majerus and Michel Margue LEIDEN • BOSTON 2010 Th is book was published with the kind support of the Fonds National de la Recherche Luxembourg and the University of Luxembourg. Cover illustration: Michel Engels, Allegorie de la Patria. © Musée National d’Histoire et d’Art (Luxembourg). Photo by Christof Weber. Th is book is printed on acid-free paper. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Inventing Luxembourg : representations of the past, space, and language from the nineteenth to the twenty-fi rst century / by Pit Peporte . [et al.]. p. cm. — (National cultivation of culture ; v. 1) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-90-04-18176-2 (hardback : alk. paper) 1. Luxembourg—Historiography. 2. Luxembourg—Boundaries. 3. Nationalism— Luxembourg. 4. Luxembourg—Languages. 5. Luxembourgish language. 6. Language policy—Luxembourg. 7. Sociolinguistics—Luxembourg. I. Péporté, Pit. II. Title. III. Series. DH908.I55 2010 949.350072—dc22 2009048080 ISSN 1876-5645 ISBN 978 90 04 18176 2 Copyright 2010 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, Th e Netherlands. Koninklijke Brill NV incorporates the imprints Brill, Hotei Publishing, IDC Publishers, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers and VSP. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, translated, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior written permission from the publisher.
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