In the 19th century, the French people were confused about their national identity after Napoleon's influence faded from memory. Children and soldiers did not know basic facts about France, like what country certain departments were located in. To address this, France introduced school courses on French history and culture to educate people. They also promoted Joan of Arc as a national hero and tourism to her hometown to foster national pride and unity. Additionally, France shifted away from the German definition of a nation based on language, tradition, and race, toward their own definition centered on a shared identity and consciousness as French people.
In the 19th century, the French people were confused about their national identity after Napoleon's influence faded from memory. Children and soldiers did not know basic facts about France, like what country certain departments were located in. To address this, France introduced school courses on French history and culture to educate people. They also promoted Joan of Arc as a national hero and tourism to her hometown to foster national pride and unity. Additionally, France shifted away from the German definition of a nation based on language, tradition, and race, toward their own definition centered on a shared identity and consciousness as French people.
In the 19th century, the French people were confused about their national identity after Napoleon's influence faded from memory. Children and soldiers did not know basic facts about France, like what country certain departments were located in. To address this, France introduced school courses on French history and culture to educate people. They also promoted Joan of Arc as a national hero and tourism to her hometown to foster national pride and unity. Additionally, France shifted away from the German definition of a nation based on language, tradition, and race, toward their own definition centered on a shared identity and consciousness as French people.
In the 19th century, the French people were confused about their national identity after Napoleon's influence faded from memory. Children and soldiers did not know basic facts about France, like what country certain departments were located in. To address this, France introduced school courses on French history and culture to educate people. They also promoted Joan of Arc as a national hero and tourism to her hometown to foster national pride and unity. Additionally, France shifted away from the German definition of a nation based on language, tradition, and race, toward their own definition centered on a shared identity and consciousness as French people.
Is it unity in commonalities of culture and language,
tradition, race, state. For the French this was a reasonable question for which uptil the 19th century they had no idea as the memory of Napoleon faded the French were confused In terms of issues with identities, the French were immersed in it. Children and soldiers could not answer any questions about their identity or their nation such as if they were French or german? Or in which country the department of Lozere is? From children in classes to adults living their lives people were in general confused about who they were and what their identity was.children didn't know what existed outside their parishes and even the french army had issues with their identity. 60%(6 out of 10) of the cavalry in 1904 had never heard about the Franco German war of 1870 (confirmed via military journals ) and barely half knew of the annexation of Alsace- Lorraine. Similarly in 1906 36% of them didn't even know how germany vanquished france in the war of 1870.locals were very adamant on making the idea of france seem like a dream even tho it wasn't as hard to accept and understand as they made it seem.to combat this a number of measures were taken such as firstly introducing courses in schools to educate the locals about france through this the french showed success in the form of students writing poems such as long live france along with a cult for joan of the arc created for everything she accomplished along with the rise in fame of domremy(home of joan of the arc) this in turn lead to tourism from inside and outside the nation bringing along a sense of unity and creating a national hero all together. Secondly the French decided to move away from the German definition of a nation(language tradition race state) to their own which described the assumptions and serene conscience of the french. Concluding this we can say that looking at the concept of france transitioning in a nation is very basic when u dont go into the details but the more u dive deeper the more questions you start to ask.eventually realizing that french people had no idea they belong together as one nation until the 19th century when the above incidents occurred.in the end we realize it was just a test of time to have the french unsure about their past and who they were but as time passed these methods of instilling unity as people of one nation came in handy as they initially pushed france to become the unified state (by its own definition a nation after the 19th century)