Introduction : the children of the Revolution
pt. 1: France, 1799-1870. Revolution or consensus? : French politics, 1799-1870
"Le malheur d'être femme"
Artistic genius and bourgeois culture
The French in a foreign mirror
pt. 2: France, 1870-1917. War and Commune, 1870-1871
Consensus found : French politics, 1870-1914
Reconciling Paris and the provinces
Secularization and religious revival
Feminism and its frustrations
Modernism and mass culture