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Rêvenance is dedicated to the forgotten or untold histories of 19th Century avant-garde and dissenting countercultures. It promotes history practiced as game, activism, trans-generational collaboration, communal memory, which refuses to describe history as finished: a committed historiography, which does not stand apart from its object: intellectual and precise, yet ludic and multi-form, one moment manifest as an essay, the next as a poem. A historiography created within the utopian fringe, and for the same community, responsive to our changing conditions, needs, and desires. A historiography that we take personally, merging imperceptibly into experiments in daily life, social praxis, and thought. Vol. I. Issues 1-5 of of Rêvenance reproduced exactly in a single perfect-bound volume, preceded by a new preface by the editor and a complete table of contents, and followed by a full index of all five issues. Future volumes will be released every five issues, with continually updated index.

This reader has been prepared specially for use in the multidisciplinary course Liberté: France's Impact on the Nineteenth Century led by Brian Counihan at Community High School in Roanoke, Virginia, though it is intended to be useful to independent readers as well. The course is intended to present an introduction to the dramatic and hotly-contested progress of French society as it entered, and helped to create, the modern age. I have brought together artifacts and texts from the domains of politics, literature, history, philosophy, and art that attempt to indicate not only the dominant trends in French society, but also those underground counter-currents which have always existed within and against it. This is the final volume of four; it covers the period from the Franco-Prussian War to century's end.