Remembering Victory—Commemorating Defeat? The Franco-British Trafalgar Centenary in 1905
This chapter explores the centenary of Trafalgar in 1905, not only from the British but especially from a French perspective. That year marked the shift from memory and narrative iteration at first hand to commemoration. It analyses history and memory both from the perspective of 1905 — in the contexts of the recent Entente Cordiale with Britain and the dismantling of the Napoleonic religious consensus — as well as of the subsequent historiography of that period. It explores the paradox of French participation in remembering defeat and concludes that — while going against the general thrust of French commemoration of 1805 — French celebrations in 1905 fitted with a pattern of memorializing past conflicts.
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