Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: The Fin-de-Siècle Cult of Heroes
- 1 Gender, Class, and Heroism in the Bazar de la Charité Fire of 1897
- 2 Cyrano: A Hero for the Fin de Siècle?
- 3 “L'Appel au Soldat”: Visions of the Napoleonic Legend in Popular Culture
- 4 On the Boulevards: Representations of Joan of Arc in the Popular Theater
- 5 Opium, Gambling, and the Demimondaine: The Ullmo Spy Case of 1907–1908
- Conclusion: From One War to the Next: The End of Heroes?
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: The Fin-de-Siècle Cult of Heroes
- 1 Gender, Class, and Heroism in the Bazar de la Charité Fire of 1897
- 2 Cyrano: A Hero for the Fin de Siècle?
- 3 “L'Appel au Soldat”: Visions of the Napoleonic Legend in Popular Culture
- 4 On the Boulevards: Representations of Joan of Arc in the Popular Theater
- 5 Opium, Gambling, and the Demimondaine: The Ullmo Spy Case of 1907–1908
- Conclusion: From One War to the Next: The End of Heroes?
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
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- Heroes and Legends of Fin-de-Siècle FranceGender, Politics, and National Identity, pp. 255 - 264Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011