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SOURCE: “Monuments of the Maternal: Reflections on the Desbordes-Valmore Correspondence,” in L'espirit createur, Vol. 39, No. 2, Summer, 1999, pp. 41-51.
In the following essay, McCall describes the gender dynamics of female epistolary writing illustrated by Desbordes-Valmore's Correspondance intime.
Collective remembrance promotes unity through the recognition of a common memory that the public is invited to claim as its own. For this reason, cultural historians have paid significant attention to the creation of a secular national identity in France through commemorative events.1 If it is true that France's heroes were and perhaps still are its writers,2 it is also clear that much remains to be said of the ways in which Third Republic France generated literary heroes and the grounds upon which these figures were shaped to define a cultural pre-eminence. The erection of statues constituted an important element in this process, for it allowed the nation to bring its many...
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