France on Display: Peasants, Provincials, and Folklore in the 1937 Paris World's FairSUNY Press, 1998 M01 1 - 265 pages The 1937 Paris World's Fair presented a traditionalist image of France as a rural, provincial country, faithful to its folk traditions and to its Old World heritage. France's attachment, well into the twentieth century, to its traditionalist roots has often been interpreted by scholars as a reactionary impulse, a desire to resist modernization or a wish to return to the past. However, in this book Peer argues that this enduring attachment in Third Republic France to peasants, provincials, and folklore was not inherently reactionary or anti-modernist. Instead, these aspects of France's "traditional" heritage were refashioned in new ways to allow France to modernize while still retaining its distinctive identity. |
Contents
Shaping the Exposition21 | 21 |
Unity in Diversity The French Regions53 | 53 |
Peasants in Paris Images of Rural Society99 | 99 |
Folklore and the Reinvention of Tradition135 | 135 |
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1937 Exposition agrarian agricoles agricultural Albert Demangeon architects architecture Archives Nationales F12 argued artisans artists Arts et Traditions Breton Centre historique Centre rural costumes countryside created cultural display diversity economic Edmond Labbé Exposition internationale exposition's fair's festivals File F12 folklore conference folklorists France France's French National Archives French national identity Georges Monnet Georges-Henri Rivière groups Henri Sellier historique des Archives Ibid images industrial Jean Zay Jules Méline L'Action régionaliste l'Exposition Le Corbusier leftist Léon Blum modern movement Musée d'Ethnographie Musée National museum National des Arts organizations Palais de Chaillot Paris Parisian paysan peasant Pierre planning policies political Popular Front production promoted propaganda proposed provinces Raoul Dautry Rapport général regime Région Regional Center Regional Commission regional committees regionalist Romenay Rural Center rural exhibit rural France social Socialist Société society Thiesse Third Republic tourists Traditions Populaires University Press urban Vichy village visitors workers World world's fairs