FR256 Module Outline, 2024-25
Week 1. Introduction: Defining the French Right
Seminar. Encounters with the French Right
Week 2. Nationalism, Anti-Semitism, and the Dreyfus Affair
Seminar. Anti-Semitism and Popular Culture in Fin-de-Siècle France
Week 3. Mass Politics and Right-Wing Culture in Interwar France
Seminar. Street Parades and Holiday Camps: Right-Wing Culture and Community
Week 4. The Dark Years of Collaboration: 1940–45
Seminar. Young People in Occupied France
Week 5. De Gaulle and the Right: From the Resistance to May 1968
Seminar. Hero or Dictator? De Gaulle and the French
Week 6. Reading Week
Week 7. Hands-on Research at Modern Records Centre: Fascism, Resistance, May '68
Week 8. Right-Wing Populists: Pierre Poujade and Jean-Marie Le Pen
Seminar. Forum on Populism
Week 9. Chirac, Sarkozy and the Legacy of Charles de Gaulle
Seminar. Interrogating the Gaullist Legacy
Week 10. Marine Le Pen and Contemporary French Politics
Seminar. Beyond Right and Left?