Conference - The 1851 uprising in collective memory

The republican uprising of December 1851 laid the foundation for a political tradition that shaped the political history of southeastern France—particularly in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence and Var departments—for a century. Its memory forms the basis of an "advanced" republican narrative, which those who claim this heritage maintain. Initially clandestine, it triumphed with the Third Republic before fading and experiencing periods of both prosperity and decline. This is the history that this conference aims to explore.