In and Out of the Panthéon
Thomas Laqueur: Funerals, politics and memory in France, 20 September 2001
Funerals, Politics and Memory in Modern France 1789-1996
by Avner Ben-Amos.
Oxford, 425 pp., £55, October 2000,0 19 820328 4 Show More
by Avner Ben-Amos.
Oxford, 425 pp., £55, October 2000,
Monumental Intolerance: Jean Baffier, a Nationalist Sculptor in Fin-de-Siècle France
by Neil McWilliam.
Pennsylvania State, 326 pp., £58.95, November 2000,0 271 01965 4 Show More
by Neil McWilliam.
Pennsylvania State, 326 pp., £58.95, November 2000,
“... part in creating the modern secular order. Jean Baffier, the obscure Fin-de-Siècle sculptor whom Neil McWilliam resurrects in his superb study of art and lost causes, understood this power. Baffier was not a long forgotten, would-be rival of Rodin’s, although during his life the amount of public attention he received was probably second only to ... ”