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Symbols of Power: Statues in Nineteenth-Century Provincial France

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 June 2009

William Cohen
William Cohen
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Indiana University
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Maurice Agulhon, in his classic French historical study, revealed how the changing political fortunes of Republicanism were reflected in the many metamorphoses that statues of the Republic had undergone in the century after the French Revolution. This study and a number of important works by North Americans, like those of James Leith and Lynn Hunt, are also important in making us understand French political iconography.

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The Symbolic Economy of Provincial Capitals
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Comparative Studies in Society and History , Volume 31 , Issue 3 , July 1989 , pp. 491 - 513
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Copyright © Society for the Comparative Study of Society and History 1989

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