reviewer encapsulated Fraser's argument: Equating patriarchal family metaphor with government paternalism and imperialist protectionism, the chapter argues that such familial intimations, heightened by acute emotionalism and hints of a Western culture soiled by Eastern penetration, corresponded to and reflected a paternalistic government urge to protect the victimized Greeks, a thinly veiled justification for French colonial intervention in the Mediterranean. See also Paternalism Pater patriae Patrimonialism Fatherland Robert Filmer Confucianism Notes References Elisabeth Fraser Delacroix, Art and Patrimony in Post-Revolutionary France (2004, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press) Political philosophy Family Corporatism Confucianism