Imaging Military Recruitment and the French Revolution
by
Valerie Mainz
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
This book examines a range of visual images of military recruitment to explore changing notions of glory, or of gloire, during the French Revolution. It raises questions about how this event re-orientated notions of ‘citizenship’ and of service to ‘la Patrie’. The opening lines of the Marseillaise...