Liberté Vol. II: A Reader of French Culture & Society in the 19th Century

This reader has been prepared specially for use in the multidisciplinary course Liberté: France's Impact on the Nineteenth Century led by Brian Counihan at Community High School in Roanoke, Virginia. The course is intended to present an introduction to the dramatic and hotly-contested progress of French society as it entered, and helped to create, the modern age. I have brought together artifacts and texts from the domains of politics, literature, history, philosophy, and art that attempt to indicate not only the dominant trends in French society, but also those underground counter-currents which have always existed within and against it. This volume is the second of four; it covers the period from the Bourbon Restoration up to the eve of the Revolution of 1848. Vol. 3 will carry us from there to the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War; and the final volume will bring us from the Commune to century’s end.