Susan Foley

“My God! Why Was I Born?”

Susan Foley

Journal article  |  2018  |  Journal of Family History

Unpublished documents by Léon Laurent-Pichat (1823–1886), republican activist and Life Senator, record his experience of being bor..

"The Christmas Tree of the Alsatians and Lorrainers": Spectacle, Emotion, and Patriotism in Paris during the Early Third Republic

Susan Foley

Journal article  |  2018  |  French Historical Studies

Abstract This article underlines the significance of emotions in shaping political culture by analyzing a largely f..

The Christmas Tree Becomes French: From Foreign Curiosity to Philanthropic Icon, 1860-1914

S Foley

Journal article  |  2017  |  French History and Civilization: papers from the George Rude Seminar

Tristan Flora

S FOLEY

Reference Work  |  2017

Becoming a Woman: self-fashioning and emotion in a nineteenth-century family correspondence

Susan Foley

Journal article  |  2015  |  Women's History Review

The Republican Family and Republican Politics: Léon Laurent-Pichat and his Kin (1861-1883)

S FOLEY

Journal article  |  2015  |  French History and Civilisation: Proceedings of the George Rudé Seminar

Gouts et habitudes theatrales d'une "nouvelle couche sociale": Leonie Leon et Leon Gambetta au Theatre

S FOLEY, C Sowerwine

Book Chapter  |  2014

VERCINGETORIX MEETS MINERVA: GENDER, POLITICS AND CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY IN THE LETTERS OF LEON GAMBETTA AND LEONIE LEON

Susan K Foley

Journal article  |  2012  |  FRENCH HISTORY

This article explores the significance of appeals to classical antiquity in the correspondence between Léon Gambetta (a founder of..

A political romance: Léon Gambetta, Léonie Léon and the making of the French Republic, 1872-82

SK Foley, C Sowerwine

Book  |  2012

Léon Gambetta is renowned as a founder of the French Third Republic. This unique study of his correspondence with his lover, Léoni..

"A Great and Noble Painting": Leon Gambetta and teh Visual Arts in the French Third Republic

Susan Foley

Journal article  |  2011  |  French History and Civilization: papers from the George Rude Seminar