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By Ina Caro
The highway from the Past is a special new manner of France, background, and looking out at travel. In it, Ina Caro takes us on an unforgettable travel of France, touring north via its appealing areas and chronologically via its colourful history.
We commence in Provence, the place the Roman Empire held sway, after which visit Languedoc to go to the websites that marked the Age of religion following the Empire’s fall. subsequent is the Dordogne, the place we event the feudal heart a long time, from Charlemagne and the Age of Chivalry to the lifetime of Joan of Arc. carrying on with north, we come to the château-studded Loire Valley, “the Valley of Kings,” the place monarchs and nobles, in addition to their fascinating mistresses, plotted for wealth and power. eventually, we achieve the Île-de-France, surrounding Paris, the place Louis XIV solidified his autocratic and imperialistic reign—as did Napoleon a century later
With Ina Caro as an epicurean, a professional, and delightfully opinionated advisor, we will continuously ensure that you do locate the main breathtaking vistas, the main awesome châteaux, the main inspiring cathedrals, the easiest meals. The street from the Past takes us to the place heritage unfolds—and then to a favourite spot for a picnic or a five-course dinner.
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As Michel Fogel has shown, 28 Politics as Theater the Te Deum was introduced in 1587 by Henry III: it took the hymn of praise to God, which had been a part of rituals in which the king had directly participated—his coronation, or his entry into a city—and turned it into the nucleus of an autonomous ceremony, no longer requiring his presence. Combining the song of celebration of God with the reading of a psalm and prayers said for the king, the Te Deum was celebrated simultaneously throughout the kingdom to mark the historical triumphs of the monarchy.
This interpretation reimagines the Restoration as a kind of ideological crucible which left a tangible legacy of practices as well as ideals which would constitute the political culture of France in the nineteenth century. In addition to reinserting the Restoration as a critical link between the Revolution of 1789 and the rest of the nineteenth century, this book demonstrates how useful it can be to use the Restoration to turn back and think critically about the Old Regime. Again, it was Tartuffe that pushed me in this direction.
6 In practical terms, this translated into an effort during the First Restoration to revive the symbols, the calendar, and many of the rituals of the Old Regime, but without a direct confrontation with their revolutionary or imperial counterparts. But Napoleon’s return in the Hundred Days proved that this conciliatory policy was far too dangerous. It became impossible simply to “pardon” the past loyalties of given individuals or to “ignore” the power of tricolor flags, revolutionary songs, or busts of Napoleon to rally together opposition to the government.