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The Notion of ‘Nation’ in the Thought of Maurice Barrès(1880-1914)

  • Korean Review of French History
  • Abbr : KRFH
  • 2014, (31), pp.81~107
  • Publisher : KOREAN SOCIETY FOR FRENCH HISTORY
  • Research Area : Humanities > History

MA, Eun-ji 1

1한남대학교

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ABSTRACT

This study aims to explain the notion of ‘nation’ and its meaning in the thought of Maurice Barrès in the historic context of France in the late 19th century. Barrès grasped that the notion of nation republican was too limited and incomplete in the politics of the French Third Republic. He sought for national unity in the role of mortar as ‘the soil and the dead.’ The two terms include the historic and cultural meanings designating territory and ancestors. He supposed that these ethnic symbols as historic and cultural would play the role of a common reference point between the different rival groups. Barrès was convinced that the real French nation was the existence possessing in common the historic times and experiences and living with the soil and the dead. On the base of this faith, he said, “A nation is a group of men united by common legends, traditions, mœurs in the same milieu during a more or less long time.”

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