FR256 Module Outline, 2025-26

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 Politics and Photography

Week 4. The Dark Years of Collaboration: 1940–45

Seminar. Pétain, Vichy, and the French

Week 5. Youth and Fascism in Mid-Century France

Seminar. Youth, War, and Utopia

Week 6. Reading Week

Week 7. De Gaulle and the Right: From the Resistance to May 1968

Seminar. Hero or Dictator? De Gaulle and the French

Week 8. Right-Wing Populism: From Poujadism to the Front National

Seminar. Forum on Populism

Week 9. Chirac, Sarkozy and the Legacy of Charles de Gaulle

Seminar. Interrogating the Gaullist Legacy

Week 10. The Rassemblement National and the Radical Transformation of French Politics

Seminar. Beyond Right and Left?

N.B. The module will also include an optional visit to the French collections at the Modern Records Centre.