The Saint-Napoleon: Celebrations of Sovereignty in Nineteenth-Century France by Sudhir Hazareesingh

The Saint-Napoleon: Celebrations of Sovereignty in Nineteenth-Century France

Sudhir Hazareesingh

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In 1852, President Louis Napoleon of France declared that August 15--Napoleon Bonaparte's birthday--would be celebrated as France's national day. Leading up to the creation of the Second Empire, this was the first in a series of attempts to "Bonap...

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