Type journalArticle Authors Nancy Struever Publication title History and Theory Issue 1 Volume 27 Pages 51 Short title PASQUIER'S RECHERCHES DE LA FRANCE Language English Keywords historical consciousness identity nationalism/nation building politics (political history/political theory) Abstract Focuses on the use of history in identifying the moral-political identity in France. Political paradigms of public policy; Definition of classical and medieval modes; Reactivation of the medieval exemplary tactic.