New Views on Citizenship and National Identity in Early Modern France
Article first published online: 21 DEC 2005
DOI: 10.1111/j.1478-0542.2004.00078.x
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Wells, C. C. (2004), New Views on Citizenship and National Identity in Early Modern France. History Compass, 2: **. doi: 10.1111/j.1478-0542.2004.00078.x
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- Issue published online: 21 DEC 2005
- Article first published online: 21 DEC 2005
- History Compass 2 (2004)EU 078,1 -4
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Abstract
This article explores new ideas about the development of standards of citizenship and national identity in early modern France. Rather than appearing full-blown at the time of the French Revolution, French citizenship has a prehistory going back at least as far as the fifteenth century.

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