Introduction: Revisiting the intellectual transformation of nineteenth-century France
Between positivism and republicanism: Émile Littré and the founding of the Third Republic
Centralist defender of the state: the eclectic republicanism of Charles Dupont-White
From democratic advocate to monarchist critic of the republic: the ambiguous republicanism of Étienne Vacherot
A republican Saint-Simonian: Eugène Pelletan and the transformation of nineteenth-century republicanism
Neo-Kantian moralist and activist: Jules Barni and the establishment of the municipalist republic
Conclusion: The origins of the Third Republic reconsidered.