Religion and the Politics of Time: Holidays in France from Louis XIV through Napoleon

Religion and the Politics of Time is an extensive study of the changes in religious holidays in Old Regime and Revolutionary France. It highlights the importance of cultural and religious history in the transformations of French society that took place from the mid-seventeenth through the early nineteenth century and tells an important story of the development of a French national calendar of holidays.

In Old Regime France, local bishops decided which holidays people living in their dioceses...