Ebook: Politics and theater: the crisis of legitimacy in restoration France, 1815-1830

"Kroen re-creates the atmosphere of Restoration France and at the same time brings major nineteenth-century themes into focus: memory and commemoration, public and private spheres, politics and religion, anticlericalism, and the formation of democratic ideologies and practices. Of value to anyone interested in the complicated process of how political legitimacy is constituted, both from above and below, Kroen's book will be welcomed not only by modern French historians but also by scholars of revolution, comparative monarchy and democracy, political theory, and religion, and by specialists on theater and cultural practices."--Jacket.;Introduction: Staging Monarchy in a Postrevolutionary World -- pt. I. Politics as Theater -- 1. The "Counterrevolutionary" State and the Politics of Oubli (Forgetting) -- 2. The Missionaries: Expiation and the Resacralization of the King's Two Bodies -- 3. Competing Commemorations: The Problem of Performing Monarchy -- pt. II. Theater as Politics -- 4. "Practicing" Politics in an Age of Counterrevolution -- 5. Popular Anticlericalism: Defining the Sacred in Postrevolutionary France -- 6. Tartufferie.