Jennifer Walker is Assistant Professor of Musicology in the School of Music at West Virginia University. Her research focuses on the relationship between sacred music and secular societies, and she is the author of several articles and essays that examine this subject in the context of nineteenth-century France. Her research has been funded by the American Council of Learned Societies and the American Musicological Society.

• Introduction Chapter 1: The Catholic Church in Republican Musical Aesthetics Chapter 2: Pious Puppets and the Limits of Symbolism Chapter 3: Sincerity and the Limits of Symbolism Chapter 4: Saint-Eustache: The Republic's Sacred Cathedral Chapter 5: The Trocadéro: The Republic's Secular Cathedral Chapter 6: The Republic's Righteous Woman at the Opéra-Comique: Jules Massenet's Grisélidis Conclusion Appendix A: "Les grands oratorios à l'église Saint-Eustache": Programs Appendix B: Jules Massenet's La Terre promise: Biblical References Appendix C: Programs of the Ten concerts officiels at the 1900 Exposition Universelle Bibliography Index

Sacred Sounds is particularly valuable because it demonstrates the surprising role of religious music in generating a French Republican culture.

Jennifer Walker is Assistant Professor of Musicology in the School of Music at West Virginia University. Her research focuses on the relationship between sacred music and secular societies, and she is the author of several articles and essays that examine this subject in the context of nineteenth-century France. Her research has been funded by the American Council of Learned Societies and the American Musicological Society.

• Introduction Chapter 1: The Catholic Church in Republican Musical Aesthetics Chapter 2: Pious Puppets and the Limits of Symbolism Chapter 3: Sincerity and the Limits of Symbolism Chapter 4: Saint-Eustache: The Republic's Sacred Cathedral Chapter 5: The Trocadéro: The Republic's Secular Cathedral Chapter 6: The Republic's Righteous Woman at the Opéra-Comique: Jules Massenet's Grisélidis Conclusion Appendix A: "Les grands oratorios à l'église Saint-Eustache": Programs Appendix B: Jules Massenet's La Terre promise: Biblical References Appendix C: Programs of the Ten concerts officiels at the 1900 Exposition Universelle Bibliography Index

Sacred Sounds is particularly valuable because it demonstrates the surprising role of religious music in generating a French Republican culture.

Jennifer Walker is Assistant Professor of Musicology in the School of Music at West Virginia University. Her research focuses on the relationship between sacred music and secular societies, and she is the author of several articles and essays that examine this subject in the context of nineteenth-century France. Her research has been funded by the American Council of Learned Societies and the American Musicological Society.

• Introduction Chapter 1: The Catholic Church in Republican Musical Aesthetics Chapter 2: Pious Puppets and the Limits of Symbolism Chapter 3: Sincerity and the Limits of Symbolism Chapter 4: Saint-Eustache: The Republic's Sacred Cathedral Chapter 5: The Trocadéro: The Republic's Secular Cathedral Chapter 6: The Republic's Righteous Woman at the Opéra-Comique: Jules Massenet's Grisélidis Conclusion Appendix A: "Les grands oratorios à l'église Saint-Eustache": Programs Appendix B: Jules Massenet's La Terre promise: Biblical References Appendix C: Programs of the Ten concerts officiels at the 1900 Exposition Universelle Bibliography Index

Sacred Sounds is particularly valuable because it demonstrates the surprising role of religious music in generating a French Republican culture.