This booklet examines more than a few visible pictures of army recruitment to discover altering notions of glory, or of gloire, during the French Revolution. It increases questions on how this occasion re-orientated notions of ‘citizenship’ and of carrier to ‘la Patrie’. the outlet strains of the Marseillaise are grandly declamatory: Allons enfants de l. a. Patrie/le jour de gloire est arrivé! or, in English: Arise, young ones of the Homeland/The day of glory has arrived! What do those phrases suggest of their later eighteenth-century French context? What used to be gloire and the way was once it replaced by means of the progressive procedure? This army track, later followed because the nationwide anthem, represents a deceptively unifying second of collective engagement within the making of the trendy French country. Valerie Mainz questions this via an in depth examine of visible imagery facing the problem of army recruitment. From neoclassical portray to renowned prints, such pictures regularly handled the shift from civilian to soldier, targeting how males, and never ladies, have been referred to as to serve the Homeland.
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