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The Pride of Place: Local Memories and Political Culture in Nineteenth-Century France.(Book Review)
From: Journal of Social History
Date: 20050922
Author:Nord, Philip
The Pride of Place: Local Memories and Political Culture in Nineteenth-Century France. By Stephane Gerson (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2003. xii plus 324 pp.).
Gustave Flaubert held in horror the suffocating conventionalism of provincial life, its buttoned-up formality and pretentious-cum-comic erudition a la Bouvard and Pecuchet. Stephane Gerson, however, takes the matter of provincialism to heart, mapping the extensive and varied efforts of nineteenth-century Frenchmen to cultivate sentiments of loyalty and affection to hometown and pays.
Gerson's point of entry ...
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