Une Vie de Gloire Et de Souffrance: Le Mythe de Beethoven Sous La Troisieme RepubliquePaperback, 21 June 2017

France's Third Republic misrepresented Beethoven when it turned him into a character whose values were foundational in the construction of the nation's identity. This myth is found in a vast body of Beethovenian literature, which borrows from epic and hagiographic literature as much as it does from popular literature.