De part et d’autre du Rhin. Descriptions géographiques et représentations nationales dans les Causeries du voyage franco-allemand de Victor Duruy (1860)
French Historian Victor Duruy’s 1860 travel on Rhine and Danube gives him rise to go all over South of Germany. He let a diary of this journey, original in terms of both content and form. His geographical and ethnographical observations allow him to make a comparison between territories on both side...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Société Royale Belge de Géographie and the Belgian National Committee of Geography
2013-03-01
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| Series: | Belgeo |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/belgeo/7361 |
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| Summary: | French Historian Victor Duruy’s 1860 travel on Rhine and Danube gives him rise to go all over South of Germany. He let a diary of this journey, original in terms of both content and form. His geographical and ethnographical observations allow him to make a comparison between territories on both sides of Rhine, and to prove France’s superiority to Germany. So this is not so much a discovery travel as a confirmation and justification one. In places already known by many years of studies, the Historian can confirm several images and clichés. Furthermore it makes him able to take a patriotical line that allows him to defend border status quo between France in Germany in a time of rise of Prussian claims on Rhenish area. |
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| ISSN: | 1377-2368 2294-9135 |