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“... most peasants). It is this meridional tradition of sociability which provides the framework for Agulhon’s inquiry into The Republic in the Village, or, ‘how the republican spirit came to Provence’. His research was originally undertaken for a weighty doctoral thesis, which explains some of its peculiar characteristics – in particular, the vast and ...”

“... were only noticed by the seamen who had to clean them. Such irreverent thoughts are provoked by Maurice Agulhon’s rather solemn study of the way the French Republic came to be personified as Marianne. Apart from one single reference in 1793, the name does not seem to have been much used until the middle of the 19th century. Like ‘Whig’ and ...”

“... omnipresent emblem of Louis XIV’s reign’. The essay on ‘The Centre and the Periphery’ by Maurice Agulhon revisits his familiar argument that the Jacobin state was more tolerant of regional diversity than its critics allow: President Poincaré received the Provençal writer Mistral with great deference; the state overlooked its laws against ...”

“... such as Daudet, Dumas fils, Halévy and Goncourt and the promising novelists Anatole France and Maurice Barrès,who became one of her closest and most faithful friends. She held open house for her entourage during the summer in a villa on the Normandy coast. In short, she enjoyed remarkable literary success. She also threw herself into the thrilling world ...”

“... in the Revolution and when living underground she had been very familiar with her admirers, as Maurice Agulhon demonstrated in Marianne into Battle. There is nothing like Rude’s Marseillaise or Dalou’s triumphant Republic in London. One problem was that there was no opposition rhetoric in English sculpture to invigorate officialese, or rather to ...”

“... did the chambrées (people’s clubs), gambling rings and drinking societies that the historian Maurice Agulhon has credited with the spread of republicanism around the Var and Provence. Over the course of 1847, a ‘campagne des banquets’ had extended across France as a means of circumventing government restrictions on public assemblies and overtly ...”

“... and his book is a model of recent French historiography, in the tradition of Pierre Nora and Maurice Agulhon. He is also a political scientist, intrigued by the general’s stake in his own myth-making as a means of empowerment and self-justification. In his new biography, Jonathan Fenby delivers the infant Charles into an era of anxiety, brought on ...”

“... Cold War, when it included a group of future historians – among them, Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, Maurice Agulhon, Jacques Ozouf – to rival its British counterpart. In France, too, it was the XXth Party Congress in Moscow and the Hungarian Revolt that broke up this nursery of talents. Furet left the Party in 1956, and while pursuing – initially ...”