Rites protestataires et tensions démocratiques en France à l'âge romantique (1820 - 1848)
AUTOR(ES)
Fureix, Emmanuel
FONTE
Almanack
DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO
2015-04
RESUMO
Abstract This article deals with the constitution of an " oppositionnal public space " before the advent of democracy, during the French constitutional monarchy. In the light of recent works, it shows how traditional usual rites (banquets, funerals, rough music) are performed as political forums which subvert the standards of the representation. As the official public space was restrained, they become rites of civic control and explicit protest against the powers. By mixing different social groups, by awarding public honors, by celebrating explicitly or implicitly the sovereign people, they reveal important tensions regarding political representation. The mobilized lower classes see in these rites an opportunity to become visible and symbolically sovereign, whereas the organizers of theses rites in the 1820's, liberal politicians, denied this sovereignty.
