Editors' Preface
Dan Edelstein and Bettina Lerner
Mythomania and Modernity

Part I: From Nation to Republic
Bettina Lerner
Michelet, Mythologue
Leon Sachs
Teaching to the Choir: The Republican Schoolteacher and the Sanctity of Secularism
Tyler Stovall
The Myth of the Liberatory Republic and the Political Culture of Freedom in Imperial France

Part II: Reading Revolution
Marie-Helene Huet
The Face of Disaster
Dan Edelstein
The Modernization of Myth: From Balzac to Sorel
Edward Berenson
Fashoda, Dreyfus, and the Myth of Jean-Baptiste Marchand

Part III: Mythical Selves
Goeran Blix
Heroic Genesis in the Memorial de Sainte-Helene Natacha Allet
Myth and Legend in Antonin Artaud's Theater
Jean-Marie Apostolides
Herge and the Myth of the Superchild
Lawrence Kritzman
De Gaulle's Memoires: Self-Portraiture and the Rhetoric of the Nation