This wide-ranging work confronts the complex question of nationalism in France in its various permutations-myths, obsessions, possibilities, and dangers. French nationalism has always been a double-edged sword, from its beginnings in the French Revolution through the two Napoleonic empires, Boulangism, the Dreyfus affair, the fascist groups of the 1930's, Marshal P tain's National Revolution during World War II, and its latest contemporary incarnation...