“Friends” and “Aliens”: France in the Face of Invasion in 1814

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“Friends” and “Aliens”: France in the Face of Invasion in 1814

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The opposition “friend - foe” has performed and continues to perform various functions - from consolidating society in the fight against a common enemy to dividing the state into two hostile camps. The concept of “stranger” in the practice of identification turns out to be very relative and situational. The boundaries that distinguish “us” from “strangers” are fluid, they change from era to era, depend on a host of circumstances and conditions, and are modified under the influence of real communication with the “other.” At the end of Napoleon's empire in France, there were many different people dissatisfied with his regime. In the face of the Allied invasion of French territory, the transformation of “us” into “strangers” and “strangers” into “friends” took place. The concepts of “friends” and “enemies” became very relative under the conditions of military occupation, as evidenced by the self-presentation of the French royalists of that time as “patriots” of France. Everything was mixed up in the winter of 1814 in France: both “friends” and “strangers”, and “royalist-collaborators”, and “robber-Cossacks”.

Barcode: 978-5-8243-2545-4 SKU: 70176849 Category:
Publication language: Russian

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