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Napoleonic Wars of 1812 - 1815: the French commemorations in ourdays

Gladyshev Andrey

   The 200th anniversary of the Napoleonic wars provoked in France a wave of commemorations of various levels, contents and directions. On this occasion it took place a lot of academic conferences, it appeared numerous monographs, collections of articles and publications of historical sources. The author pays a special attention to the corresponding social and cultural initiatives in French provincial towns and villages such as festivals, exhibitions, fairs, processions, concerts, battle reconstructions.

Keywords: History of France, the Napoleonic wars, historical memory, commemoration.
Link: Gladyshev A. Napoleonic Wars of 1812 - 1815: the French commemorations in ourdays // Annuaire d'études françaises 2016: Les révoltes à l'époque de la Révolution française et du Premier Empire / Annual of French Studies 2016: The Popular Insurrections in the Age of the French Revolution and the First Empire.М. P. 337-354.