The End of the French Exception?

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 The French Exception: Rise and Fall of a Saint-Simonian Discourse

Chapter 3 Reviving the French Exception? Sarkozy, Authoritarian Populism and the Bonapartist Tradition

Chapter 4 Social Policy and France’s ‘Exceptional’ Social Model

Chapter 5 ‘L’exception culturelle’

Chapter 6 The French Extreme Left and the Persistence of a Revolutionary Myth

Chapter 7 French Euroscepticism and the Construction of National Exceptionalism

Chapter 9 France, Islam and Laïcité : Colonial Exceptions, Contemporary Reinventions and European Convergence

Chapter 10 From Private Lives to Intimate Revelations: Politicians and the Media in Contemporary France

Chapter 11 France, Europe and the Limits of Exceptionalism

Chapter 12 Back to the Future? Franco-African Relations in the Shadow of France’s Colonial Past

Chapter 13 A View from the South. France in African Eyes: Universalism and Francophonie Reassessed

Chapter 14 French Exceptionalism and the Sarkozy Presidency