Cult of The Nation in France: Inventing Nationalism, 1680 - 1800 gives great insight into the building of nationalism in France. Bell says his book's purpose is on having national identity being a person's whole being, not on the history of the national identity of France. David Bell seems to reflect Liah Greenfield's belief in the French building their nationalism around the collective. I appreciated all the topics Bell covered here from subtle propaganda, the deconstruction of kingship's connection to God, France's shifting political atmosphere and the cult of great men and its substitution for religion. There's are just a few ideas that stuck out to me within the book. I did not like Bell's writing, I found it hard to track at times and boring at other times.