COUNTRY OF GOTHICA AND NAPOLEONISM: FRIDRICH NAUMANN ABOUT FRANCE (1899-1914)
The article is devoted to the analyze of imagies of France and the French in representations of outstanding German liberal politician F. Naumann of at the turn of the XIX-XX centuries. The author of article deals with following points of F. Naumann's imagines: Gothica as expression of national spirit of the French; Napoleonism as a perfect framework of government, as a combination of empire and democracy; aspiration to reconciliation and the union from France against Great Britain and Russian empire. In conclusion the author stresses that Naumann representations did not influence on decision making of political decisions, but acquaintance to them gives more exact knowledge of spiritual atmosphere in Germany and Europe before the First World War.