Table of Contents

I. Introduction
1: The Occultation of Regionalism in French History
2: Characteristics of Belle Epoque Regionalism
II. The Idea of Regionalism: Regionalists and Federalists
3: Charles-Brun and the Felibrige: Mistral or Louis-Xavier de Ricard?
4: Charles-Brun's Sources: Maurras or Proudhon?
III. Regionalism in Action
5: Jeunesse or Sagesse? Charles-Brun and the Rejuvenation of the City
6: The Praxis of Regionalism: Context and Application
7: The Development of the FRF
IV. The Impulse for Reconciliation
8: Art and Catholicism
9: Social and Political Reconciliation
Conclusion
Appendixes
Bibliography
Index

Reviews

impressively researched, dense with argument and information, narrated with evident sympathy, and easy to read' English historical studies [Charles-Brun's] regionalism and his federalism were part of a vision of France modernised, brought up to date and, as the verbiage went, regenerated. English Historical Studies Wright displays the breadth of [Charles-]Brun's interests and sympathies, and of the sympathies that he himself attracted... Charles-Brun marched on... awaiting the splendid dissertation Wright has dedicated to him... Charles-Brun would have been good company at dinner; and Wright makes his intellectual biography a good read.' English Historical Studies