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Gender topmost the Suppressing of Convents during description French Coup d'‚tat, 1789-1801
Course
HDS 2110: Power, Civil affairs, and description Female Devout Life (Spring 2013)
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Notre-Dame: The soul of France by Agnès Poirier
France
by Gemma Betros•
September 2020, no. 424
Notre-Dame: The soul of France by Agnès Poirier
Oneworld, $36.25 pb, 240 pp
France
by Gemma Betros•
September 2020, no. 424
French journalist Agnès Poirier has a flair for relating the saving of France’s artistic treasures. One of the most gripping chapters of her previous book, Left Bank: Art, passion and the rebirth of Paris, 1940–50 (2018), told the story of Jacques Jaujard, who skilfully evacuated the Louvre’s greatest works mere days before the outbreak of World War II. In Poirier’s brief volume on Paris’s cathedral of Notre-Dame, devastated by fire on 15 April 2019, it is the turn of curator Marie-Hélène Didier and Notre-Dame’s operational director, Laurent Prades. As Poirier tracks the fire from outbreak to containment, we watch them battle Paris’s traffic-locked streets by car, RER, Vélib’, and foot to reach the cathedral and rescue what they can. Prades’s sudden (and entirely understandable) inability to remember the code for the safe in which the Crown of Thorns is kept makes for tense reading.
However you might feel about religious relics, the media attention and the donations that poured in after the fire suggested that, for many, Notre-Da
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Get to Know the 2012-13 WSRP Research Associates
Gemma Betros
Visiting Assistant Professor of Women's Studies and European History
Gemma Betros is Lecturer in Modern European History at the Australian National University. She graduated from the University of Queensland with first-class honors in history and completed her master's and PhD at the University of Cambridge, where she was a student at Peterhouse.
Recent research interests include representations of Catholicism in the work of French novelist Adélaïde de Souza (1761-1836) and the Parisian convent of the Nouvelles Catholiques, dedicated to the conversion of Protestant women in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century France. She is also working on a biography of Napoleon Bonaparte for Routledge's Historical Biographies series.
During her time as a Research Associate with the Women's Studies in Religion Program, Betros will be adapting her PhD for publication as a monograph. This book will examine the suppression of female religious communities in Paris during the French Revolution and their partial revival under Napoleon Bonaparte.
In spring 2013, she will teach the course 'Power, Politics, and the Female Religious Life.'
Kristin Bloomer
Visiting Assistant Professor of Women's Studies and South Asian Relig