Residences and gardens

Nobility and patrimony in modern France ◽

10.7228/manchester/9781526120519.003.0007 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Elizabeth C. Macknight

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The upkeep of aristocratic residences required constant interaction between nobles, stewards, servants and labourers, as well as professional architects and designers. From coastal manor houses to riverside châteaux and alpine villas, these properties regularly needed repair and beautification. Owners dictated when modern conveniences like electric lighting and plumbing were introduced to their homes, how furnishing and art should be selected and arranged, and what kinds of features would characterise the exterior, such as arboreta, fountains, and garden beds. This chapter explains the evolution of French legislation for protecting private residences and gardens showing how nobles responded to an increasingly interventionist State from the founding of the Monuments historiques to key laws passed under the Third Republic.

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The French RightThe Right in France from the Third Republic to Vichy, by Kevin Passmore. Oxford, UK, Oxford University Press, 2013. xvi, 391 pp. $136.50 US (cloth).The Aesthetics of Hate: Far Right Intellectuals, Antisemitism, and Gender in 1930s France, by Sandrine Sanos. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 2012. xiv, 369 pp. $65.00 US (cloth).

Canadian Journal of History ◽

10.3138/cjh.48.3.473 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 48 (3) ◽

pp. 473-476

Author(s):

Samuel Kalman

Keyword(s):

Third Republic ◽

Stanford University ◽

Far Right ◽

Oxford University ◽

The Third ◽

And Gender ◽

Oxford University Press

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The Return of N’Guyen Van Binh

Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques ◽

10.3167/hrrh.2020.460203 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 46 (2) ◽

pp. 25-42

Author(s):

Geoff Read

Keyword(s):

Third Republic ◽

Forced Labor ◽

Political Prisoner ◽

Second Empire ◽

Indentured Servitude ◽

The Third ◽

Original Sentence ◽

French Colonial ◽

One Year

This article explores the case of N’Guyen Van Binh, a South Vietnamese political prisoner exiled for his alleged role in “Poukhombo’s Rebellion” in Cambodia in 1866. Although Van Binh’s original sentence of exile was reduced to one year in prison he was nonetheless deported and disappeared into the maw of the colonial systems of indentured servitude and forced labor; he likely did not survive the experience. He was thus the victim of injustice and his case reveals the at best haphazard workings of the French colonial bureaucracy during the period of transition from the Second Empire to the Third Republic. While the documentary record is entirely from the perspective of the colonizers, reading between the lines we can also learn something about Van Binh himself including his fierce will to resist his colonial oppressors.

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