Nicolas Roussellier
Faculty
Email: nroussel@middlebury.edu
Phone: work802.443.5526
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Nicolas Roussellier is an Assistant Professor of Political History at Sciences Po (Paris). He is also a Professor atMiddleburyCollege(Centre Madeleine in Paris and Vermont Campus). He has published several books or contributions on French Political History, especially on the transformations of Republican institutions and parliamentary democracy.
Courses
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FREN 3412 - Great Speeches Fr Pol Rhetoric ▹
This course will study a variety of modern political speeches from the French Revolution to today. It offers a panorama of the evolution of French political rhetoric according to its historical, political, intellectual, and religious context. Students will have the opportunity to become familiar with political literature and will work on the art of rhetoric and political discourse in a concrete and lively manner, notably through enrichment of vocabulary, knowledge of the diversity of language styles, analysis of argumentation, and discursive strategies. Students of this course will have the opportunity to write by themselves a political speech which will be performed in a special event at the end of the summer session: the 'Soirée de l'Eloquence politique'. The 'Soirée' will be devoted to the political figure of Robespierre .
Required text : François Furet, Mona Ozouf, Dictionnaire critique de la Révolution française, Flammarion, collection « Champs », 2007, ISBN-13: 978-2081202931
Summer 2008, Summer 2009, Summer 2010, Summer 2011, Summer 2012
FREN 6640 - Hist France:Metropol to Global ▹
Histoire de France—de l’échelle métropolitaine à l’échelle-monde / History of France—From the Metropolitan to the Global Level
(Section A - Methodology ; Section B - Civilization)
This course offers students a condensed panorama of the principal changes marking the history of France since the Age of Enlightenment. France will be studied from the perspectives of the metropolis and its external relationships and actions (colonies, migrations, exiles, etc.). Two topics receiving particular attention will be the creation of the nation-state confronted with the instability of political regimes, and social, religious, and cultural identities, from the search for unity to recognition of minorities.
Required texts: 1) Berstein S. et Winock M. (dir.), L’invention de la démocratie 1789-1914, Seuil, 2002 ISBN 9782757802267; 2) Berstein S. et Winock M. (dir.), La République recommencée, Seuil, 2004 ISBN 9782757802274
N.B. Students who choose section A can validate their credits in methodology (equivalent to 6525) or they can choose standard evaluation without validating the methodology unit.
Civ Cul & Soc PedagogySummer 2008, Summer 2009, Summer 2010, Summer 2011, Summer 2012
