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Contents

Note to the Reader

3

1.

Tumbling Back into France, by Way of Philology

5

A Medieval Poem Comforts a Modern Nation

5

The Simple Middle Ages

7

The Primitive and the Gothic

10

The Oriental and the Gothic

12

The Sacramental Middle Ages

16

The Franco-Prussian War

21

The Virtue of Old French

27

Gaston Paris and the Dance of Philology

30

Gaston Paris and Our Lady’s Tumbler

42

German Philologists

46

2.

Notre Dame: The Virgin in Nineteenth-Century France

51

The Age of Mary

51

The Fleur-de-Lis

57

The Apparitions of the Virgin

61

The Reactionary Revolution

69

Cathedralomania

72

Notre-Dame Cathedral and Eiffel Tower

87

3.

Franglais Juggling

97

The Anglicizing of the Tumbler

97

Thomas Bird Mosher and Reverend Wicksteed

104

Isabel Butler and Her Publisher

111

Reverend Cormack, Alice Kemp-Welch, and Eugene Mason

116

Katharine Lee Bates and Gothic Wellesley

121

Nostalgia for the Middle Ages

134

4.

Anatole France

137

The Local Historian Félix Brun

137

The Poetaster Raymond de Borrelli

149

The Hungarian Dezsö Malonyay

156

Anatole France and Gaston Paris

158

Mayday, Mayday

163

The Little Box of Mother-of-Pearl

164

The Golden Legend and the Irony of Philology

167

5.

Le Jongleur de Notre Dame

177

Bricabracomania

177

Saints and Miracles

188

Fantasy and Humility

196

Why Compiègne?

198

Why Barnaby?

201

Jongleur as Juggler

204

Anatole France as Juggler

210

Edwin Markham’s Working-Class Juggler

218

Notes

223

Notes to Chapter 1

223

Notes to Chapter 2

241

Notes to Chapter 3

252

Notes to Chapter 4

269

Notes to Chapter 5

283

Bibliography

297

Abbreviations

297

Archives

297

Referenced Works

297

List of Illustrations

325

Index

337