idenefiable by the revdiucionan tricolour, has just reacized the statue. Source A She is followed by the peoples of Germany, bearing the black, red and gold thag, Intcrestingly, at the rime when Sorrieu created this Ernst Renan, 'What is a Nation?' iraage, the German peoples did not yet existas a united nation - the In a lecture dellvered at the Universin tlag they carry is an expression of liberal hopes in 1848 to unify the Renan (1823.92) outined his understang numerous Gcrman-speaking principalities into a nation-state under what makes a nation. The lecture understands them. Why, in his view, are fice? important?