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French Royal Women during the Restoration and July Monarchy

Redefining Women and Power

Palgrave Macmillan

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  1. Heta Aali

    1. University of Turku, Turku, Finland

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  • Explores public discussions around the four most prominent royal women in early nineteenth-century France

  • Examines the use of historical precedents to (re)define the accepted role of royal women

  • Provides a contextualized view of queenship during the first and second Restoration and the July Monarchy

Part of the book series: Queenship and Power (QAP)

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Introduction

    • Heta Aali
    Pages 1-18

  4. The Last Bourbon Moment (1820–1830)

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    Pages 51-107

  5. New Dynasty, Old History (1830–1839)

    • Heta Aali
    Pages 109-183

  6. Dying Royal Power (1840–1848)

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    Pages 185-229

  7. Conclusion

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    Pages 231-235

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 237-261
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About this book

This book examines public discussions around France's four most prominent royal women during the first and second Restoration and July Monarchy: the duchesse d’Angoulême, the duchesse de Berry, Queen of the French Marie-Amélie, and Adélaïde d’Orléans. These were the most powerful women of the last decades of the French monarchy, but the new roles women were assigned in post-revolutionary France did not permit them to openly exercise political influence. This book explores continuities and variations in narratives of royal legitimacy, and how historians, authors, and politicians used national history - particularly medieval and early modern history - to either legitimize or undermine the French monarchy, and to define women's social and political roles. 


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Keywords

  • the French monarchy
  • French national history
  • Bourgeois Queenship
  • the Restoration period
  • Marie Thérèse
  • Marie-Caroline
  • Marie Amélie
  • Adélaïde of Orléans
  • cultural memory
  • ligitimacy
  • nineteenth century France
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Reviews

“A large corpus of newspapers, magazines, biographies … constitutes the main set of primary sources on which Aali based her analysis. This choice certainly adds to the scholarly value of the book … . References to this very interesting set of primary records are supplemented by a long list of up-to-date secondary sources. The inclusion of an appendix with the family tree of the Bourbon and Orleans families is particularly useful for those unfamiliar with the genealogy of these Houses.” (Pablo Escalante, Royal Studies Journal, Vol. 9 (2), 2022)
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Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Turku, Turku, Finland

    Heta Aali

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About the author

Heta Aali is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Turku, Finland, and has published widely on French cultural history, nineteenth-century historiography, and medievalism.
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Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: French Royal Women during the Restoration and July Monarchy

  • Book Subtitle: Redefining Women and Power

  • Authors: Heta Aali

  • Series Title: Queenship and Power

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-59754-2

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: History, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-59753-5Published: 11 June 2021

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-59756-6Published: 12 June 2022

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-59754-2Published: 10 June 2021

  • Series ISSN: 2730-938X

  • Series E-ISSN: 2730-9398

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 261

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: History of France, History of Early Modern Europe, Cultural History, Imperialism and Colonialism, Gender Studies

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