Foreword by Lynn Hunt The Republican Calendar Brief Chronology of the French Revolution Introduction I. The History of the Revolutionary Festival The Revolution as Festival History of the Festivals, History of the Sects Boredom and Disgust II. The Festival of the Federation: Model and Reality Riot and Festival: The "Wild" Federations The Federative Festivals The Paris Federation A New Festival? The Festival of All the French? III. The Festival above the Parties: 1792 The Norm and the Exception Two Antagonistic Festivals? The Unity of Tragedy IV. Mockery and Revolution: 1793-1794 The "Other" Festival Where, When, with Whom? Reasonable Reason Violence and the Festival V. Return to the Enlightenment: 1794-1799 The "Happy Nation" The System of Brumaire, Year IV VI. The Festival and Space Space without Qualities The Symbolic Mapping-Out The Renovation of a Ceremonial Space: The Example of Caen The Resistance of Paris The Space-Time of the Revolution VII. The Festival and Time Beginning Dividing Up Commemorating Ending VIII. The Future of the Festival: Festival and Pedagogy "The Schools of the Mature Man" The Power of Images The Correct Use of Images Nothing Goes without Saying IX. Popular Life and the Revolutionary Festival A Shameful Ethnology History of a Failure Revolutionary Symbolism and Peasant Tradition The Mai sauvage A Pedagogical Tree From the Maypole to the Tree A Break X. The Revolutionary Festival: A Transfer of Sacrality Horror vacui The Meaning of a Few Borrowings The Meaning of Purging Abbreviations Notes Bibliography Index