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• Forrest, Alan. The French Revolution and the Poor. New York: St. Martin's Press.

Seminar: Tuesday, 9:00am-12:00n, Library 2126 Faculty: Stacey Davis davisst@evergreen.edu Lab I 1024 867-6761 Assignments and Due Dates: Week One Voltaire, Candide Jack Censer, ed., Liberty, Equality, Fraternity, Ch. 1 & 2 Week Two Lynn Hunt, The Family Romance of the French Revolution Jack Censer, ed., Liberty, Equality, Fraternity, Ch. 3 Week Three William Vaughan, Jacques-Louis David's Marat Alan Forrest, The French Revolution and the Poor, pgs. 1-33 & 75-97 [This last article is a large PDF file. Download it at a computer with a fast internet connection, and then print.] Week Four CLR James, Black Jacobins Jack Censer, ed., Liberty, Fraternity, Equality, Ch. 4 Due: Book reviews (written and oral), Group 1 Week Five Hugh Honour, Romanticism Due: Book reviews (written and oral), Group 2 Week Six Honore de Balzac, Old Goriot Due: Book reviews (written and oral), Group 3 Due: Final project topic (one paragraph) Week Seven Alain Corbin, The Life of an Unknown: the Rediscovered World of a Clog Maker in 19th Century France John Merriman, "Demoiselles of the Ariege," in John M. Merriman, ed. 1830 in France Due: Book reviews (written and oral), Group 4 Week Eight Emile Zola, Germinal Due: Annotated bibliography for final project Thanksgiving Break No classes, but you'll be working ont he final exam this week. Week Nine Gay L. Gullickson, Unruly Women of Paris: Images of the Paris Commune Due: Remember final exams are due Monday of this week! Week Ten Alain Corbin, The Village of Cannibals: Rage and Murder in France, 1870 Due: Written final project; final oral presentations happen today. Wednesday, December 10: Group presentation to entire program. Evaluation Week All evaluation conferences will be held on Monday, December 15, and Tuesday, December 16, so you can go ahead and make holiday travel plans now.

Description: The term "history seminar" is a little misleading, because while our focus will be on understanding the histoyr and lives of French folks during the 18th and 19th centuries, we will be using art and literature as well as traditional history texts to aid us in our inquiry. Our main goal this quarter will be to probe the links between the ideas that elites and intellectuals (like the Enlightenment philosophers, Romantic painters, high-powered politicians, socialist theorists and naturalist writers) had about "the common people," and the identities, desires and realities of actual peasants, artisans, workers, women and enslaved subjects in the colognies. Furthermore, we'll ask: how did the political tumult of the great French Revolution that began in 1789, plus all the "little revolutions" of the 19th century and the birth of democratic and socialist movements, affect everyday folk? And what could everyday folk do to make their needs and desires heard by those at the top? We'll also ask whether we can ever really know what life was like for a Haitian slave, a 19h century clog maker, or a female participant of the 1870 Paris Commune. This work, which will cross the line between history, art and literature - and back again - will continue winter quarter as we move into the 20th century and add a new focus on colonialism/imperialism, including African independence movements, and wars of liberation, from the 1870s through the 1960s. Assignments: The following assignmetns are the specific work for the history seminar. The history seminar work is worth 6 credits total. Plase note: Late work is not accepted Seminar Attendance: Attendance is mandatory. I will not excuse absences for any reason and "make-up" work is not possible. Students who miss more than 1 seminar during the quarter will jeopardize their credit. Seminar participation: In order for seminars to work, each student must read all the assigned material before each week's seminar begins. Also, everyone must participate vocally and often in seminar discussions, both in large conversations and in small group work. Students who do not read, or who do not speak up about the readings, will lose credits. Book Review: Each student will write a 5-page book review of one crucial book in 18th or 19th century French history, to be chosen from the list handed out first week. The day the book review is due you will give a very brief (5 minutes) oral review of the book to the seminar. This book review is worth 2 of the 6 seminar credits. Final individual project: Each student will choose a project topic of his or her own choice, using primary and secondary academic sources. The topic can cover any aspect of French or French colonial intellectual, social, political, cultural or gender history; art history; or historical aspects of 18th and 19th century Frnech literautre. Final history program group presentation: On the very last day of class, each seminar will present to the entire program (hopefully in a creative, engaging and good-humored way) a synopsis of its learning this quarter. This is a way for the students in the other two seminars to see what we've been doing all fall. Our seminar will have 1/2 hour to present. You have free reign to make this group work as creative and fun as it can be.