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The meaning and the expression of social hierarchies underwent a fundamental change in the revolutionary period after 1789. The emergence of new and increasingly bourgeois social hierarchies was accompanied by a great confusion about the markers by which the new social positions and roles were expressed, reaffirmed and interpreted. According to Denise Davidson, only by 1830 were the new post-revolutionary social hierarchies supported by a set of markers on which there was relative consensus. In this view, the Napoleonic and Restoration eras have to be understood as transitional periods during which new markers came into play were selected and agreed upon. In order to reconstruct this slow growth in consensus about the meaning and expression of social hierarchies, in France after Revolution. Urban Life, Gender, and the New Social Order, Davidson focuses on public spaces where members of the different classes mingled with one another and where the game of observing and commenting upon each other was part of the attraction of seeking out these public spaces in the first place. France after Revolution addresses three larger themes, each in two chapters. The first two chapters treat political festivals during the Napoleonic and Restoration periods, the following two deal with the world of theatre in both Paris and the provinces and the last two focus on urban life in the provinces, looking at various associations and circles, on the one hand, and at the world of drinking and dancing on the other. In her analysis, Davidson also focuses on the role and impact of three structural players (the State, the Church and ‘producers of culture’, like journalists and playwrights) on the formation of the new set of markers of social hierarchies. Refreshingly, provincial urban life features prominently in this study, with most examples coming from the cities of Lyon and Nantes, although Parisian urban life also features extensively.
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