German state unexpectedly beat France in the Franco-Prussian War (1870–71). Security fears were further exacerbated by intense European competition for prized overseas territory, mounting anti-colonial sentiment within Britain's own imperial possessions
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Masculinity on Stage
Dueling in the Greek Capital, 1870–1918
Dimitra Vassiliadou
remarkable increase of duels in the wake of national ordeals has also been observed in other European countries, for example, in France after the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–1871. 45 It was then that the honor councils were introduced into the Greek Army, on
Marrying into the Nation
Immigrant Bachelors, French Bureaucrats, and the Conjugal Politics of Naturalization in the Third Republic
Nimisha Barton
context of population crisis following the Franco-Prussian War and, three decades later, the Great War. With the decimation of the French male population between 1914 and 1918, Frenchmen were called upon more than ever before to reproduce for a nation bled
In French Politics, Culture & Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2016
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- Research Article
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- 23–43
The Office de la Famille Française
Familialism and the National Revolution in 1940s Morocco
Margaret Cook Andersen
being sustained largely by reductions in mortality rates and not the increasingly restrained birthrate. Following French defeat in the Franco-Prussian War, 1870–1871, growing numbers of patriotic French people feared the consequences of the dwindling
In French Politics, Culture & Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2016
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- Research Article
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- 44–62
What Was So Funny about Les Aventures de Rabbi Jacob (1973)
A Comedic Film between History and Memory
Michael Mulvey
’honneur during the Franco-Prussian War. Tenenbaum was absent from Oury’s life, and his widowed maternal grandmother, “Mouta” Berthe née Goldner (1871–1949), and his mother raised him in an unobservant household. After his baccalaureate, Oury entered the Comédie
In French Politics, Culture & Society
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- 01 Dec 2017
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- Research Article
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- 24–43
Whitney Walton
La Rochelle, and they had one son. Suffering financial losses during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–1871, the family moved to Paris, where Charles Vincens served in the Ministry of the Interior, and Cécile Vincens tutored and translated. A family
In French Politics, Culture & Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2020
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- Research Article
- Pages:
- 91–112
Nicole Hudgins
of horror and fascination when touring the destruction of Paris following the Franco-Prussian War and the Commune. 17 After the Bloody Week of May 1871, Théophile Gautier and Edmond de Goncourt admitted to having “the yearning to see the grotesque
In Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques
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- 01 Dec 2016
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- Research Article
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- 51–70
The Mysterious Mr Le Queux
War Novelist, Defence Publicist and Counterspy
Roger T. Stearn
derived partly from the Franco-Prussian War – in which Le Queux's father had allegedly fought as a franc-tireur – it also anticipated German atrocities in occupied territory in both world wars. 92 Yet as an account of a war and as propaganda for its
Yan Slobodkin
at all. 33 Nutritionists now added a new possibility: human difference could be due to diet. Nutrition provided a new approach to the French obsession with racial decline that emerged after the Franco-Prussian War. 34 In contrast to an earlier focus
In French Politics, Culture & Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2018
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 52–75
German Debts
Entangled Histories of the Greek–German Relationship and Their Varied Effects
Klaus Neumann
Bolshevik Russia in 1918, and the Allies, when they negotiated with Germany at Versailles, demanded substantial reparations. After the 1870-1871 Franco–Prussian War, France had to cede Alsace and Lorraine to the German Empire and had to pay Germany a total
In German Politics and Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Sep 2016
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 77–99