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  Vallès, Jules, revolutionary 10, 56, 239, 241

  Varlin, Eugène, revolutionary 235, 241, 244

  Vaugeois, Henri, royalist 276, 277

  Velay, the 94

  Vendée

  counter-revolution in 26, 29, 72

  myth of 72–3, 78

  and defence of Rome (1870) 337

  and war of 1870 231

  Vercingétorix, Gallic chief, cult of 415, 424, 436, 443

  Verdun, battle of (1916) 16

  Véret, Désirée, feminist 161, 162

  Verlaine, Paul, poet 394, 395, 396, 399

  Verne, Jules, writer 403, 408

  Vernet, Horace, artist 184, 186

  Vérone, Maria, lawyer 383

  Versailles, Hall of Battles at château de 186

  National Assembly at (1871) 241

  troops sent from to defeat Paris Commune 243–4, 351

  Veuillot, Louis, Catholic propagandist 136, 139, 231, 244, 337

  Vianney, Jean-Marie-Baptiste, curé d’Ars 8, 118–21

  Vidal de la Blache, Paul, geographer 307

  Vienna, Treaty of (1815) 206, 221

  Vierzon 307

  Vigny, Alfred de, writer 116, 147, 171

  Villèle, Comte de, politician 36, 43, 46–7, 48, 133

  Villemessant, Hippolye de, newspaper owner 192

  Vincent de Paul Bailly, Assumptionist 13

  Viviani, René, politician 12, 268, 285, 288

  Vogüé, Eugène-Melchior de, diplomat 348, 416, 420

  Voilquin, Susanne, feminist 161, 162

  Voltaire 231

  centenary of death (1878) 341–2

  Vuillard, Édouard, artist 396

  Waddington, William, politician 252, 254, 342

  Wagner, Richard 399

  Wagram, battle of (1809) 37

  Waldeck-Rousseau, René, politician 272–3, 278, 279, 281, 282, 321, 358, 423

  Walewski, Count Alexander, politician 60, 116

  Wallon, William, politician 251, 291–2

  war

  revolutionary–Napoleonic 1, 21–2, 25, 33–4, 37–9, 41–2

  Crimean (1853–6) 218, 225

  Franco-Prussian (1870–71) 3, 11, 229–39

  First World (1914–18) 434–9

  Washington, George, American president 56, 212, 232

  Waterloo, battle of (1815) 6, 44, 45, 72, 73, 208, 215

  Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of 42, 43

  Wendel, Charles de, industrialist 62

  Westphalia, Kingdom of (1807) 33

  Wilde, Oscar, writer 394

  William I, king of Prussia, emperor of Germany 231

  William II, emperor of Germany 14, 425

  Wilson, Daniel, presidential aide 262

  wine industry 313, 315, 318

  Wissembourg, battle of (1870) 230

  Wollstonecraft, Mary, feminist 143

  women

  and charity 154, 159–60

  and divorce 4, 6, 10, 43–4, 353, 365, 370–71

  and education 10, 150–53, 339, 342, 345, 353, 358, 375–9

  and employment 151, 152, 154–7, 372–81

  and marriage 141–50, 153–4, 364–72

  and politics 158–9, 160–66, 381–9

  and French Revolution 158–9

  and Paris Commune 243, 368

  see also salons

  working classes

  division of 96–8, 319–20

  formation of 94–6, 317–19

  organization of 98–101, 162–3, 320–23

  see also compagnonnage, labour movementa, mutual aid societies, trade

  Wustemberg, Jacques-Henri, merchant 114

  Yver, Colette, writer 380–81

  Yvetot, Georges, anarchist 427

  Zola, Émile, writer

  career and circle 391, 392, 394

  and the Dreyfus Affair 274–5, 278, 356, 357, 405, 422

  and Flaubert 191

  and Manet 198, 392

  L’Assommoir 403

  Au bonheur des dames 323–4

  Germinal 317, 320

  Nana 367, 369, 392,

  La Terre 311, 392

  Zurich 21

  Table of Contents

  Cover

  Title Page

  Copyright Page

  Dedication

  Contents

  List of Illustrations

  Acknowledgements

  Maps

  Introduction: The Children of the Revolution

  Children of the Revolution

  PART ONE: France, 1799–1870

  1. Revolution or Consensus?: French Politics, 1799–1870

  2. Discovering France

  3. A Divided Society

  4. Religion and Revolution

  5. ‘Le Malheur d’être femme’

  6. Artistic Genius and Bourgeois Culture

  7. The French in a Foreign Mirror

  PART TWO: France, 1870–1914

  8. War and Commune, 1870–1871

  9. Consensus Found: French Politics, 1870–1914

  10. Reconciling Paris and the Provinces

  11. Class Cohesion

  12. Secularization and Religious Revival

  13. Feminism and its Frustrations

  14. Modernism and Mass Culture

  15. Rebuilding the Nation

  Conclusion: 1914

  Illustrations

  Notes

  Index