Collective Forgetting: Textbooks and the Paris Commune in the Early Third Republic

IF 0.1 3区文学 0 LITERATURE, ROMANCE

NINETEENTH-CENTURY FRENCH STUDIES Pub Date : 2021-02-09 DOI:10.1353/NCF.2021.0012

David Shafer

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Abstract

Abstract:By 1880, the year Jules Ferry produced his law on public education, the Third Republic had become France's longest enduring republic. Given France's unstable political history, republicans focused on public education as the key to stabilizing the republic, instilling republican values in future generations of French citizens, and constructing historical narratives of the Republic as the embodiment of the nation's will. However, the Commune posed a particular challenge to the origins story of the Third Republic. The brief narratives of the Commune in public-school textbooks guardedly sympathized with the conditions that drove the Commune's working-class support, but tempered that with conventional portrayals of working-class manipulability and female emotionality in the political arena. Textbooks reserved their opprobrium for the unnamed Commune leaders, their choice of political referents, their motivations, and the emotional paroxysms they unleashed. Above all, the textbooks chastised the Commune as destructive of national unity.

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集体遗忘:第三共和国早期的教科书与巴黎公社

摘要:到1880年朱尔斯·费里制定《公共教育法》时，第三共和国已成为法国历史最悠久的共和国。鉴于法国不稳定的政治历史，共和党人将公共教育作为稳定共和国的关键，向后代的法国公民灌输共和价值观，并构建共和国作为国家意志体现的历史叙事。然而，公社对第三共和国的起源故事提出了特别的挑战。公立学校教科书中对公社的简短叙述谨慎地同情推动公社获得工人阶级支持的条件，但对工人阶级可操控性和女性在政治舞台上的情感的传统描述缓和了这种同情。教科书对那些不知名的公社领导人、他们对政治代表的选择、他们的动机以及他们所释放的情绪爆发进行了谴责。最重要的是，教科书谴责公社破坏了民族团结。

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NINETEENTH-CENTURY FRENCH STUDIES LITERATURE, ROMANCE-

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期刊介绍： Nineteenth-Century French Studies provides scholars and students with the opportunity to examine new trends, review promising research findings, and become better acquainted with professional developments in the field. Scholarly articles on all aspects of nineteenth-century French literature and criticism are invited. Published articles are peer reviewed to ensure scholarly integrity. This journal has an extensive book review section covering a variety of disciplines. Nineteenth-Century French Studies is published twice a year in two double issues, fall/winter and spring/summer.