The Reform of Zeal: François de Sales and Militant French Catholicism. Thomas A. Donlan. St Andrews Studies in French History and Culture 9. St Andrews: University of St Andrews, 2018. iv + 146 pp. Free.

2020 ◽  
Vol 73 (3) ◽  
pp. 1080-1082
Author(s):  
Moshe Sluhovsky
Keyword(s):  
French History ◽  
Andrews University ◽  
French Catholicism

Socialism and Socialist Intellectuals in French History

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julian Wright
Keyword(s):  
French History ◽  
Left Wing ◽  
History Of ◽  
Intellectual Context ◽  
Capitalist State ◽  
Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries ◽  
Socialist Movement ◽  
Relationship Of

This chapter sets out the specific historiographical basis for a new study of the French socialist movement in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It argues that one particular framework—that of the reluctant relationship of socialism with power in the capitalist state—has dominated our approaches to writing the history of French socialism, and suggests that a new focus on temporalities, particularly exploring the clash between revolutionary, future-focused socialism, and present-minded socialism, opens up a new range of cultural, intellectual, and biographical sources for understanding the French socialist movement. It provides the specific intellectual context for understanding how historians in France today are seeking to rethink their intellectual inheritance from left-wing writers of earlier generations.

Medievalism and Regionalist Identity in Lalo’s Le Roi d’Ys

2020 ◽  
pp. 134-154
Author(s):  
Elinor Olin
Keyword(s):  
Fairy Tales ◽  
Fin De Siecle ◽  
French History ◽  
French Culture ◽  
Fin De Siècle ◽  
Ancient Lineage

Édouard Lalo’s opera Le Roi d’Ys was one of the earliest manifestations of French musical regionalism to find success on a major Parisian stage. Subtitled légende bretonne, Lalo’s work was set in medieval Brittany, using Breton folk melodies and a conflation of Christian and Celtic legends, intentionally sidestepping the conformist portfolio of fairy tales and grand-operatic French history at the Opéra and the Opéra Comique. Concordant with goals of contemporary regionalist associations such as the Société Celtique and the Félibres promoting the decentralization of French culture, Le Roi d’Ys represents an intentional and nostalgic re-creation of an ancient lineage, geographically and artistically independent from the culture of Paris. Most intriguing are musical links between Regionalist publications of early Provençal noëls and Lalo’s references to medieval ceremonies and rituals in Le Roi d’Ys. As such, the opera is much more than its detractors’ accusations that it was derivative, simply an echo of wagnérisme. Le Roi d’Ys set an important precedent for later regionalist works by Chausson, Ropartz, Widor and others, and was significant to the transformation of musico-dramatic repertory in fin-de-siècle France.

St Andrews University Greenland projects, 1938–67

Polar Record ◽  
1968 ◽  
Vol 14 (89) ◽  
pp. 187-190 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. I. Drever ◽  
P. W. F. Gribbon
Keyword(s):  
Andrews University
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