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
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Marrying into the Nation
Immigrant Bachelors, French Bureaucrats, and the Conjugal Politics of Naturalization in the Third Republic
Nimisha Barton
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
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
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
The Return of N'Guyen Van Binh
Exile and Injustice in the French Empire, 1866–1876
Geoff Read
Binh and his family as the Franco-Prussian War intervened and all attempts to find him stalled as a consequence (although Guadeloupe did write, unhelpfully, in June saying that N'Guyen Van Vi had been returned to France in 1869). 29 As a result, no
Introduction
‘William Le Queux, Master of Misinformation’
Ailise Bulfin and Harry Wood
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
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
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
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
Gauging the Propagandist's Talents
William Le Queux's Dubious Place in Literary History: Part Two
A. Michael Matin
‘old enough to remember the beginning of the anti-German phase of that very ancient propaganda in England’, Shaw identified how it had been in 1871, in the immediate aftermath of the Franco-Prussian War (which established Germany as Europe's leading