Feuding, Factionalism and Fictions of National Identity: Reconsidering Charles VII’s Armagnacs
Tracy Adams
President Nicolas Sarkozy’s recent call for a debate on national identity generated controversy in France. I use this as point of departure from which to re-examine the nineteenth-century myth nationalism that casts Armagnacs, supporters Charles VII, protonationalists. If type Armagnacs represented possesses any didactic force today, it is negative exemplum. Based contemporary chronicle representations faction revealing how understood itself and was viewed by its enemies, argue are better seen members feuding than early nationalists conclude over would be well served acknowledging outset fictive nature what History France relates about trajectory towards unity perennial disagreement who French not.
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