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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">AUTUMN 2022<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">HSTEU 490 A (23340) / FRENCH 376 A (15635) / JSIS 488 A (17048)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#7030A0">Culture, Politics and Society in France from the Religious Wars to the Revolution</span></b><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">(5 credits;
<span style="background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">I&S/VLPA</span>; conducted in English)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Prof. Geoffrey Turnovsky (gt2@uw.edu)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">TTh 10:30-12:20<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Course Description:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">By the 1680s, France had become, under Louis XIV, the foremost superpower in Europe. The global influence of its culture continued
in the 1700s, “when all of Europe spoke French.” But while global elites from Saint Petersburg to Lima adopted French as a prestige language, most people in France, even on the cusp of the 1789 Revolution from which the modern Republic was born, spoke it only
as a second tongue, if they spoke it at all. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The staging of French grandeur at Versailles masked the degree to which France was—and remains—a diverse and fragmentary patchwork
of regional communities and traditions. Louis XIV's 20 million “subjects” remained deeply wedded to local customs, affiliations, histories, and dialects. They had limited contact with the central government (mostly via the hated tax collector) and no<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">natural affection for it. How did a modern unified
<i>nation</i>, with a single administration, language, and the claim to a shared French culture and national identity, evolve from this patchwork?
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Readings, lectures, discussions, and projects will touch on the following themes:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The modern state. Absolutism and divine right; Versailles, the court, and the cult of the King; the rites of political representation; theorizing the "nation" and citizenship<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The upheaval of traditional social "orders" (aristocracy and the third estate); mobility; urbanization and new work and consumption patterns fueled by trade and colonialism;
climate and health<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The politics of religion; the Catholic monarchy and religious plurality; the growth of Protestantism<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Marriage, gender, privacy, and domestic life; traditions, critical perspectives and new practices<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;text-autospace:none">
<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Language and linguistic politics; multilingualism and the codification of “French”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;text-autospace:none">
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">New media environments and cultures of information, shaped by the growing print trade, the press and rising literacy; propaganda and contestation; the rise of public
opinion<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">New forms of organization and diffusion of knowledge in the “Age of Enlightenment”; the
<i>Encyclopédie</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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