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2. Paper Aristocrats. Three literary figurations of nobles at the end of the Ancien Régime (Besenval, Polignac, Richelieu)
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Triquenaux, Maxime, Institut d’Histoire des Représentations et des Idées dans les Modernités (IHRIM), École normale supérieure de Lyon (ENS de Lyon)-Université Lumière - Lyon 2 (UL2)-Université Jean Moulin - Lyon 3 (UJML), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Université Blaise Pascal - Clermont-Ferrand 2 (UBP)-Université Jean Monnet - Saint-Étienne (UJM)-Université Clermont Auvergne [2017-2020] (UCA [2017-2020])-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université de Lyon, Olivier Ferret, École normale supérieure - Lyon (ENS Lyon)-Université Lumière - Lyon 2 (UL2)-Université Jean Moulin - Lyon 3 (UJML), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Université Blaise Pascal - Clermont-Ferrand 2 (UBP)-Université Jean Monnet [Saint-Étienne] (UJM)-Université Clermont Auvergne [2017-2020] (UCA [2017-2020])-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and STAR, ABES
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[SHS.LITT]Humanities and Social Sciences/Literature ,Noblesse ,Biographème ,Fin de l'Ancien Régime ,Révolution française ,[SHS.LITT] Humanities and Social Sciences/Literature ,Literary figuration ,Biographeme ,Littérature pamphlétaire ,Pamphleteer literature ,French Revolution ,Aristocratie ,Social imaginary ,Nobility ,Gender ,Imaginaire social ,End of the Ancien Regime ,Aristocracy ,Representations ,Literary figure ,Anecdote ,Figuration littéraire ,Memoirs ,Représentations ,Mémoires ,Genre - Abstract
If, with the Revolution, the nobility loses its predominant position from a political and social point of view, symbolically the situation is different. The nobility continues to exercise, at least for a long nineteenth century, a real fascination that allows it to maintain its influence and prestige. This thesis intends to examine the modalities of this paradoxical situation by looking at the social imaginary of the nobility at the end of the Ancien Régime. This is a question of studying the object from a literary point of view, starting from the development of three characters of nobility at the end of the eighteenth century: the Baron de Besenval, the Duchess de Polignac and the Marshal de Richelieu. The literary depictions follow largely different trajectories for the three cases. While one chooses to take up the pen to write one’s own Memoirs (Besenval), another is only seen in texts written by others, those texts being more or less ill-intentioned (Polignac). For the third, the situation is even more complex since a number of competing editorial projects are launched at the time of his death, some protected by his family and others not, resulting in a particularly polarized corpus. Between Memoirs, pseudo-Memories and pamphlets nourished by pornographic or romantic intertextuality, the spectrum of literary genres represented is thus very broad – as are the generic and formal constraints that play a role in the process of figuration.Drawing on this vast corpus, the thesis examines certain modalities of representation of these characters, focusing on three themes that seem particularly important: homosexuality, the collective anguish of women's seizure of power (gynecocracy), and dehumanization. These different points of entry, which also imply the use of a conceptual apparatus derived from gender studies, make it possible to account for the constitution of an imaginary enemy figure, the aristocrat, which takes on its full importance at the time of the Revolution by embodying the archetypal enemy. They also provide an opportunity to deploy a discourse of exceptionality in favor of the nobility. Finally, this work constitutes a contribution concerning the study of a formal element characteristic of the social imaginary of the nobility: the anecdote. Whether serving to nourish a historiographical renewal of critical history or as a bargaining chip in the court system, the anecdote is an essential unit of the narrative culture of the time. Rewritten particularly in forms that borrow from the biographer, it can also be used to produce a true memorial to the nobility of the Ancien Régime, which, after the Revolution, helps to maintain its power of fascination., Si la noblesse perd, avec la Révolution, sa position prédominante d’un point de vue politique et social, la situation est différente sur le plan symbolique. Elle continue en effet d’exercer, au moins durant un long XIXe siècle, une véritable fascination qui lui permet de conserver son influence et son prestige. Cette thèse entend examiner les modalités de cette situation paradoxale, en s’intéressant à l’imaginaire social de la noblesse à la fin de l’Ancien Régime. Il s’agit d’étudier cet objet d’un point de vue littéraire, à partir de la figuration de trois personnages de nobles de la fin du XVIIIe siècle : le baron de Besenval, la duchesse de Polignac et le maréchal de Richelieu. La figuration littéraire s’effectue suivant des trajectoires largement différentes pour ces trois cas. Lorsque l’un choisit de prendre la plume pour rédiger ses propres Mémoires (Besenval), l’autre n’est ressaisie que par des textes rédigés par autrui et plus ou moins mal intentionnés (Polignac). Pour le troisième, la situation est encore plus complexe puisqu’un certain nombre de projets éditoriaux concurrents sont lancés au moment de sa mort, certains protégés par sa famille, d’autres non, ce qui aboutit à un corpus de texte particulièrement polarisé. Entre les Mémoires, pseudo-Mémoires et les pamphlets nourris par une intertextualité pornographique ou romanesque, le spectre des genres littéraires représentés est ainsi très large – de même que les contraintes génériques et formelles qui jouent un rôle dans le processus de figuration.En s’appuyant sur ce vaste corpus, la thèse s’attache à examiner certaines modalités de représentation de ces personnages, en s’intéressant à trois thématiques qui paraissent particulièrement importantes : l’homosexualité, l’angoisse collective d’une prise du pouvoir par les femmes (la gynécocracie) et la déshumanisation. Ces différents points d’entrée, qui impliquent par ailleurs l’utilisation de tout un appareil conceptuel issu des études sur le genre, permettent de rendre compte de la constitution d’une figure d’ennemi imaginaire, l’aristocrate, qui prend toute son importance au moment de la Révolution lorsqu’il incarne l’ennemi archétypal. Elles donnent aussi, malgré tout, l’occasion de deployer un discours de l’exceptionnalité en faveur de la noblesse. Enfin, ce travail constitue un apport concernant l’étude d’un élément formel caractéristique de l’imaginaire social de la noblesse : l’anecdote. Qu’elle serve à nourrir un renouvellement historiographique de l’histoire critique ou bien de monnaie d’échange dans le système de cour, elle est une unité essentielle de la culture narrative de l’époque. Ressaisie notamment sous des formes qui empruntent au biographème, elle peut aussi permettre de produire un véritable mémorial de la noblesse d’Ancien Régime, qui permet d’entretenir, après la Révolution, son pouvoir de fascination.
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- 2020
3. La guerre de Vendée comme un « mémoricide » ? Point de vue littéraire sur un différend historique.
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Stanovský, Jaroslav
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COLLECTIVE memory ,HISTORICAL fiction ,IDEOLOGICAL conflict ,MODERN history ,NINETEENTH century ,RWANDAN Genocide, 1994 - Abstract
The paper deals with a historical polemic concerning the war of Vendée during the French revolution (1793-1799) which is considered by some historians to be the first genocide of modern history. One of them, Reynald Secher, speaks about a "memoricide", which means a murder of historical memory. The paper presents this conception and then tries to verify it on the base of some historical novels written by Royalist and Republican authors all along the 19th century. The conclusion proves that historical memory of Vendée has neither been forgotten nor repressed, but on the contrary, this theme was being used by both sides in their political and ideological conflicts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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4. Introduction to the Special Issue of 'Studia Gilsoniana' on Revolution and the Enlightenment
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Paul de Lacvivier and Jason Morgan
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french revolution ,14th july ,bastille day ,federation day ,regeneration ,historical myths ,civil religion ,revolutionary festivals ,citizen ,Philosophy. Psychology. Religion ,Metaphysics ,BD95-131 - Abstract
Paul de Lacvivier This paper aims to highlight how the trial of Louis XVI expresses a complete inversion of the legal principles of Old Christian France, where the authority of the absolute King submits to superior customary and divine laws, against the Revolution, which makes the ‘general will’ a God allowing for unrestrained legal positivism. After recalling how the assassination of the King allowed the vicious circle of terror, the trial of Marie-Antoinette and the revolutionary trials, we propose an explanation of the legal principles that can lead to this kind of totalitarianism. To do so, we present some cases from 19th century Japan, which, when compared with the revolutionary trials and the pre-revolutionary Christian world, provide a key to understanding: the hierarchy of positive, natural and divine laws greatly explains how such and such a legal system can allow or not the justification of mass crimes or totalitarianism. Jason Morgan In his 2022 volume Common Good Constitutionalism, and in a series of essays and other works prior to the book’s release, Harvard Law School professor Adrian Vermeule advances a new vision for the American republic. Against the two dominant strains of constitutional interpretation in the United States, namely originalism and progressivism (“living constitutionalism”), Vermeule argues for common good constitutionalism, a return to the ius commune pursuit of that which is good for all in accordance with the natural law. While Vermeule’s work is ambitious and his intervention into originalist-progressivist debates welcome, a question remains: will common good constitutionalism be able to overcome America’s Enlightenment civil religion? In this paper, I consider the challenges which America’s Enlightenment civil religion poses to common good constitutionalism (and any other attempt to think past the Constitution from within a constitutional framework), concluding that common good constitutionalism, insofar as it is predicated on the pre-existing Constitution and deployed within the American politico-theological domain, cannot overcome America’s Enlightenment civil religion to effect the common good.
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- 2022
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5. La dimension européenne de la libéralisation des terres et les réformes agraires du milieu du 18e siècle au début du 19e.
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Jessenne, Jean-Pierre and Vivier, Nadine
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- 2021
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6. La guerre de Vendée comme un « mémoricide » ? Point de vue littéraire sur un différend historique
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Jaroslav Stanovský
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french revolution ,historical novel ,19th century ,history of literature ,war of vendée ,revolutionary historiography ,reynald secher ,Language and Literature - Abstract
The paper deals with a historical polemic concerning the war of Vendée during the French revolution (1793–1799) which is considered by some historians to be the first genocide of modern history. One of them, Reynald Secher, speaks about a “memoricide”, which means a murder of historical memory. The paper presents this conception and then tries to verify it on the base of some historical novels written by Royalist and Republican authors all along the 19th century. The conclusion proves that historical memory of Vendée has neither been forgotten nor repressed, but on the contrary, this theme was being used by both sides in their political and ideological conflicts.
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- 2020
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7. TALMA À L’ÉCOLE DE SON PUBLIC Correspondance et réflexivité.
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Julian, Thibaut
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HISTORY teachers , *REFLEXIVITY , *LETTER writing , *ACTORS - Abstract
This paper explores the critical reflexivity between actors and the audiences by focusing on François-Joseph Talma during the French Revolution. Admirers wrote letters to Talma filled with advice which may have prompted Talma’s dramatic style, his theory about “creative imagination”, and his belief in an actor’s mission to be like a history teacher, which he would later develop in Réflexions sur Lekain et sur l’art théâtral (1825). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
8. Les épreuves de l’hospitalité : deux voyageurs indiens en France pendant la Terreur (1793-1794)
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Markovits, Rahul
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mobilité géographique ,History ,réforme ,étrangers ,État administratif ,HB ,India ,hospitality ,foreigners ,migration ,Islam ,mobility ,révolution française ,HIS000000 ,hospitalité ,ministère des affaires étrangères ,Inde ,French foreign office ,asile ,mobilité ,exil ,French Revolution - Abstract
Au printemps 1793, deux voyageurs indiens, Navazish Khan et Ahmad Khan, débarquèrent à Marseille. Ils étaient en route pour Londres afin de porter plainte de la spoliation dont leur famille avait été victime en 1772 lorsque la ville de Bharuch avait été conquise par l’East India Company. En suivant à la trace les voyageurs au cours de leur passage en France, cette contribution l’envisage comme un cas limite de l’administration de l’étranger pendant la période révolutionnaire. Leurs interactions avec les autorités sont conçues comme autant d’« épreuves » au terme desquelles ils devaient parvenir à établir et faire reconnaître leur identité. Elle met l’accent sur le rôle des intermédiaires qui leur permirent de passer ces épreuves et sur le regard porté par Ahmad Khan sur la nature bureaucratique et comptable de l’hospitalité française. In the spring of 1793, two Indian travelers by the name of Navazish Khan and Ahmad Khan landed in Marseilles. They were heading for London, seeking redress from the East India Company, which had conquered the city of Broach about twenty years back, in 1772. This article follows the paper trail left behind them by the travelers as they made their way through France. The aim is to understand what this seemingly freakish case may reveal about the bureaucratic procedures foreigners were subjected to in Revolutionary France. The travelers’ interactions with the authorities are construed as a series of “tests” they needed to pass in order to establish their credentials and claims to assistance. The paper lays stress on the role of go-betweens and on how Ahmad Khan came about to view the hospitality granted by the French as bureaucratic and petty.
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9. Tribunal révolutionnaire et procès du Roi et de la Reine
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Paul de Lacvivier
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french revolution ,louis xvi ,marie-antoinette ,revolutionary courts ,edo period ,justice ,hierarchy of laws ,paganization ,Philosophy. Psychology. Religion ,Metaphysics ,BD95-131 - Abstract
This paper aims to highlight how the trial of Louis XVI expresses a complete inversion of the legal principles of Old Christian France, where the authority of the absolute King submits to superior customary and divine laws, against the Revolution, which makes the ‘general will’ a God allowing for unrestrained legal positivism. After recalling how the assassination of the King allowed the vicious circle of terror, the trial of Marie-Antoinette and the revolutionary trials, we propose an explanation of the legal principles that can lead to this kind of totalitarianism. To do so, we present some cases from 19th century Japan, which, when compared with the revolutionary trials and the pre-revolutionary Christian world, provide a key to understanding: the hierarchy of positive, natural and divine laws greatly explains how such and such a legal system can allow or not the justification of mass crimes or totalitarianism.
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- 2022
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10. The Radical Retranslations of the Revolutionary Period: Britain, France, Italy (1789-1815)
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Sanja Perovic and Brecht Deseure
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retranslation ,french revolution ,radicalism ,revolutionary time ,translators’ lives ,French literature - Italian literature - Spanish literature - Portuguese literature ,PQ1-3999 - Abstract
Despite calls for more historically contextualised accounts of retranslation, it is not easy to move beyond isolated examples to formulate more general hypotheses about retranslation as a historical practice. This paper reflects on these problems through a synchronic study of 87 retranslations, drawn from a corpus of c. 800 politically radical translations uncovered by the AHRC-funded project ‘Radical translations: The Transfer of Revolutionary Culture between Britain, France, Italy (1789-1815).
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- 2022
11. L'émergence de la propriété « parfaite » et l'ouverture du marché foncier, moteurs de la croissance agricole?
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BÉAUR, Gérard and CHEVET, Jean-Michel
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- 2017
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12. LA RÉVOLUTION FRANÇAISE VUE ET VÉCUE PAR UN VILLAGEOIS DU PAYS DE CAUX.
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MANEUVRIER-HERVIEU, Paul
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13. Narrativité, rupture et révolution
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Jean-Claude Milner and Chercheur indépendant
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Fronde ,grands récits ,[SHS.HISPHILSO]Humanities and Social Sciences/History, Philosophy and Sociology of Sciences ,mythes ,[SHS.SOCIO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Sociology ,[SHS.LITT]Humanities and Social Sciences/Literature ,grand narrative ,16. Peace & justice ,myths ,[SHS.HIST]Humanities and Social Sciences/History ,Révolution française ,French Revolution - Abstract
International audience; The French Revolution gave birth very early to various narratives that intended not only to present the total sequence of events, but tried also to expound on their “real” causes. These narratives differed deeply, but their ambitions were analogous. The present paper intends to show that the common features of such approaches are adequately captured by a notion introduced by Jean-Francois Lyotard, namely the notion of “grand narrative”.François Furet’s criticisms of the French historians of the Revolution are well known; they may be summarized as follows: instead of trying to substitute a new grand narrative to the former, he rejected the grand narrative itself. From that point of view, he participated to a wider movement. Before Furet, Claude Lévi-Strauss had drawn an analogy between the grand narratives of Western societies and the myths he studied in the Amazonian societies. Independently of Furet, Michel Foucault expressed his distrust with respect to all inherited “grand narratives”.A series of questions has now to be raised: is it possible for historians to reject completely the form of the grand narrative? Does such a rejection imply that micronarratives are the only possible way of treating past events? Does it imply that all attempts to go further than the mere juxtaposition of descriptions are doomed to fail? In its conclusion, the present paper tries to propound a solution to these difficulties.; La Révolution française a suscité très tôt une multiplicité de récits qui ne se bornaient pas à rapporter la totalité des événements, mais tentaient également à en exposer les causes « réelles ». Ces récits différaient profondément les uns des autres, mais leur ambition était analogue. Le présent article se propose de montrer que la notion de « grand récit », introduite par Jean-François Lyotard, permet de saisir les traits communs de ces divers travaux.On connaît les critiques que François Furet a adressées aux historiens français de la Révolution ; elles se laissent résumer comme suit : au lieu de substituer un nouveau grand récit aux récits antérieurs, Furet rejette le grand récit comme tel. De ce point de vue, il s’inscrit dans un mouvement de grande ampleur. Avant lui, Claude Lévi-Strauss avait dressé un parallèle entre les grands récits des sociétés occidentales et les mythes qu’il avait étudiés dans les sociétés amazoniennes. Indépendamment de Furet, Michel Foucault exprime sa défiance à l’encontre des « grands récits » hérités.Dans ces conditions, une série de questions se pose : les historiens peuvent-ils éliminer toute possibilité de grand récit ? Un tel rejet implique-t-il que les micro-récits sont seuls capables de rendre compte des événements passés ? Implique-t-il l’échec inévitable de toute tentative visant à aller au-delà de la pure et simple juxtaposition des descriptions ? Le présent article tente, dans sa conclusion, de résoudre ces difficultés.
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- 2021
14. CONSTRUIRE ET DÉFENDRE LE LIBÉRALISME EN PÉRIODE RÉVOLUTIONNAIRE : LES JUSTIFICATIONS DE LA PRÉSERVATION ILLIBÉRALE DE LA LIBERTÉ CHEZ SIEYÈS
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Sommerer, Erwan
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- 2017
15. Jane Austen and the Music of the French Revolution
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Gillian Dooley
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jane austen ,french revolution ,songs ,French literature - Italian literature - Spanish literature - Portuguese literature ,PQ1-3999 - Abstract
Among the music Jane Austen copied into one of her manuscript books dating from the 1790s is a song titled “Chanson Béarnoise”. This is by no means the only French song in Austen’s vast music collection, but it is of particular interest: the words of this song also appear as an Appendix to the “Justification de M. de Favras” (Paris, 1791) because they had been adduced in evidence against the royalist Thomas Marquis de Favras Mahy, executed by the revolutionary government in February 1790 for high treason. The Austen family’s links to France via her cousin, Eliza Comtesse de Feuillide, whose royalist husband was also executed in 1794 and who later married her brother Henry, are well known. However, the music in her collection provides an interesting new angle on her cultural and personal sympathies with France. Within a few pages of the Chanson Béarnoise, we find not only Stephen Storace’s “Captivity”, a song lamenting the suffering and dread of Marie Antoinette as she awaits her fate, but also the music and five verses of words of “The Marseilles March”, an early version of the Marseillaise. In this paper, using her music collection as a starting point, I will consider the evidence for Austen’s knowledge of French politics and culture, and her attitude to the turbulent events taking place across the Channel during her teens and early twenties.
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- 2020
16. Mirabeau: French Revolutionary and Cosmopolitan Translator
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Patrick Leech
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mirabeau ,cosmopolitanism ,translation ,romilly ,french revolution ,Political science (General) ,JA1-92 ,Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform ,HN1-995 - Abstract
Count Mirabeau is remembered in particular as a charismatic leader during the early period of the French Revolution and as such, in popular imagination, emblematic of Frenchness. In reality, by the time the revolution broke out, Mirabeau already had an international reputation, and his political and cultural reference points were strikingly cosmopolitan. Intervening in a number of international debates, he used translation, in particular, as a means promoting the causes that were dear to him, through a collaboration with a young English lawyer, Samuel Romilly. This paper will explore Mirabeau’s work as a translator and propose a figure who was exemplary of the cosmopolitan environment of late eighteenth-century radicalism.
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- 2020
17. Femmes engagées dans la chouannerie : motivations, modalités d’actions et processus de reconnaissance (1794-1830)
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Solenn Mabo, Tempora ( EA 7468), Université de Rennes 2 (UR2), and Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES)-Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES)
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Women. Feminism ,french revolution ,lcsh:HN1-995 ,civil war ,Révolution française ,genre ,Brittany ,gender ,Civil War ,lcsh:Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform ,French Revolution ,guerre civile ,Engagement ,Guerre civile ,commitment ,Gender ,HQ1101-2030.7 ,Bretagne ,lcsh:Women. Feminism ,Commitment ,Révolution Française ,Genre ,[SHS.HIST]Humanities and Social Sciences/History ,Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform ,lcsh:HQ1101-2030.7 ,HN1-995 ,engagement - Abstract
International audience; In western France, during the restoration of the French monarchy, between 1825 and 1830, many women from modest backgrounds filed pension applications so that their commitment to the royalist uprising called “chouannerie” (1794-1800) be recognized. In their pension claims, they set out the various forms of their involvement in the civil war. They explained how they took part in the rebellion by giving refuge to the royalist fighters or engaging in other strategic missions. This set of documents is original and relatively unexplored. This documentation may be helpful to examine, from a gender perspective, the process of recognizing the non-combattant commitments. How did they prove an informal involvement that happened long ago ? Did they obtain the same recognition as men for their involvement in the guerilla movement ? Beyond the issue of recognition, the types of actions led by these women and their motivations also need to be addressed. The purpose of this paper is to study the specificity of feminine commitment in the context of the chouannerie and to ponder on the reasons why women were opposing the revolutionary change. Furthermore, this paper raises the difficult issue concerning the relations between resistance, commitment and emancipation.; Sous la Restauration, dans les départements de l’Ouest, de nombreuses femmes d’origine modeste déposent des demandes de pensions pour obtenir la reconnaissance des services qu’elles ont rendus aux royalistes sous la Révolution. De l’asile aux insurgés aux missions plus stratégiques, elles exposent la nature de leur mobilisation dans le contexte de la guerre civile de la chouannerie (1794-1800). Ce corpus de dossiers de pensions, original et peu exploité, invite à réfléchir, au prisme du genre, aux processus de reconnaissance des engagements non combattants. Comment attester d’actions anciennes, menées dans un cadre largement informel ? Les femmes obtiennent-elles au même titre que les hommes la reconnaissance de leur engagement ? Au-delà des mécanismes de la reconnaissance, nous verrons dans quelle mesure cette documentation apporte un éclairage utile sur les conditions et les modalités d’actions des femmes qui se sont engagées dans ce contexte de guérilla. La spécificité de l’engagement de ces femmes, mobilisées contre les changements à l’œuvre, invite aussi à interroger l’épineuse question des relations entre résistances, engagements et émancipations.
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- 2017
18. Externally imposed institutions and regional growth differences: Evidence from France and Germany
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Guleryuz Ece H.
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French revolution ,externally imposed institutions ,regional growth differences ,urbanization ,French departments ,Economic theory. Demography ,HB1-3840 - Abstract
This paper provides a critical examination of effect of French Revolution institutions on regional economic development variations in 19th century by focusing on the experience of France. The argument in Daron Acemoglu et al. (2011) that differences in long-run economic performance of German states stem from differences in externally imposed French and domestic German institutions needs to be investigated further. A difference-in-difference estimation is used to identify a treatment effect causing growth differences between border and interior departments. The proposed treatment effect is the faster industrialization due to intensified minerals mining and railway construction in northern and northeastern France after 1850. It is shown that border departments experienced higher economic growth primarily after 1850 even though Revolution institutions and reforms were imposed in all of French departments. Therefore, externally imposed French Revolution institutions and reforms shouldn’t be counted as primary factors of causing variation in economic development across German polities.
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- 2017
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19. L'invention de la propriété intellectuelle et les frontières mouvantes de la création
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Galvez-Behar, Gabriel, Institut de Recherches Historiques du Septentrion (IRHiS) - UMR 8529 (IRHiS), Université de Lille-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Jérôme Baudry, Jan Blanc, Liliane Hilaire-Pérez, Marc Ratcliff, Sylvain Wenger, Université de Lille, CNRS, Institut de Recherches Historiques du Septentrion (IRHiS) - UMR 8529, and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Lille
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[SHS.HISPHILSO]Humanities and Social Sciences/History, Philosophy and Sociology of Sciences ,[SHS.DROIT]Humanities and Social Sciences/Law ,patent for invention ,privilege ,copyright ,creation ,French Revolution - Abstract
International audience; Today, intellectual property covers all legal measures protecting technical, literary or artistic creation. This paper shows that, far from being parallel, these different types of protection result from a cross history where the boundaries of creation are constantly redefined. The economy of privilege does not make a clear and systematic distinction between inventor and author, and the emergence of literary property in modern times is fuelled by advances in patent law. The French Revolution perfectly illustrates this process of hybridization that continued throughout the 19th century.; La propriété recouvre aujourd’hui l’ensemble des dispositifs juridiques visant à protéger la création technique, littéraire ou artistique. L’objectif de cette communication est de montrer que, loin d’être parallèles, ces différents types de protection résultent d’une histoire croisée où les frontières de la création sont sans cesse redéfinies. L’économie du privilège ne connaît pas de distinction nette et systématique entre l’inventeur et l’auteur et l’émergence de la propriété littéraire à l’époque moderne se nourrit des progrès des droits d’auteur. La Révolution française illustre parfaitement ce processus d’hybridation qui se poursuit tout au long du xixe siècle.
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- 2022
20. Sieyès et Roederer, des autoritaires libéraux ?
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Freller, Felipe
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Consulat ,Consulate ,Autoritarisme ,Liberalism ,Libéralisme ,Révolution française ,Authoritarianism ,French Revolution - Abstract
Andrew Jainchill propose la catégorie d’« autoritarisme libéral » pour interpréter l’idéologie propagée par Sieyès et Roederer tout au long de la Révolution française, une idéologie qui aurait présidé à l’instauration du Consulat. Cet article explore les potentialités autoritaires des discours de Sieyès et Roederer pendant la Révolution française, mais il soutient que le plein développement de ces embryons autoritaires après Brumaire a été le résultat de circonstances historiques imprévues., A. Jainchill proposed the concept of “liberal authoritarianism” to interpret the ideology diffused by Sieyès and Roederer throughout the French Revolution – an ideology that guided, according to the historian, the establishment of the Consulate. This paper explores the authoritarian potentials of Sieyès and Roederer’s speeches during the French Revolution, but it argues that the full development of those authoritarian germs after Brumaire was the result of unforeseen historical circumstances.
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- 2022
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21. La duchesse de Villeroy (1731-1816) : une femme riche, libre et très investie dans la musique
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Guillo, Laurent, Guillo, Laurent, Centre d'études supérieures de la Renaissance UMR 7323 (CESR), Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication (MCC)-Université de Tours-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Divino Sospiro : Centro de Estudos Musicais Setecentistas de Portugal, Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication (MCC)-Université de Tours (UT)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles (CMBV)
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[SHS.MUSIQ]Humanities and Social Sciences/Musicology and performing arts ,private theater ,musique de société ,lesbianism ,émigrés ,théâtre de société ,musical sponsorship ,French Révolution ,private music ,Révolution française ,mécenat ,[SHS.MUSIQ] Humanities and Social Sciences/Musicology and performing arts ,hôtel de Villeroy ,collection musicale ,homosexualité féminine ,Jeanne-Louise Constance d’Aumont (1731-1816) ,music collection ,lesbianisme ,Gabriel-Louis-François de Neufville (1731-1794) ,women homosexuality - Abstract
Jeanne-Louise Constance d'Aumont (1731-1816), married with Gabriel-Louis-François de Neufville (1731-1794), fifth and last duke of Villeroy, was a great Parisian aristocrat,. The couple practices private theater and private music : their hotel in the rue de Varenne was equipped with a small theater where noblemen and professional actors gave occasional performances. The couple also offered private concerts and had hired the services of the music master Philippe-Adrien Leemans and about fifteen musicians whose names have been identified in the 1770-1780 period, as Grenier, Domnich, Tauch, Marchal or the pianoforte maker Sébastien Erard. The duchess of Villeroy was the dedicatee of numerous works of music or on music music from the 1750s to the 1780s and occasionally collaborated with librettists. As a harpsichordist herself, she probably had Jacques Duphly as her harpsichord master and was interested in the evolution of keyboard instruments in the 1770s and 1780sof keyboard instruments, to the point of trying out Erard's prototypes. The duchess still had a very fine music library, which incorporated the collections of her own family, the Aumont and Brouillys, and that of Louis-André de Brancas, a nobleman from Provence, who in the 1720s collected scores for himself and for the Academy of Music in Avignon, which was then in its debuts. This paper focuses on a musical and theatrical portrait of the duchess of Villeroy, to show how supported the arts and artists., Jeanne-Louise Constance d’Aumont (1731-1816), épouse de Gabriel-Louis-François de Neufville (1731-1794), cinquième et dernier duc de Villeroy, est une grande aristocrate parisienne, qui a entretenu un théâtre et une musique de société. Le couple offrait aussi des concerts privés et s’était adjoint les services du maître de musique Philippe-Adrien Leemans et d’une quinzaine de musiciens dont les noms ont été identifiés pour la période 1770-1780, tels Grenier, Domnich, Tauch, Marchal ou le facteur Sébastien Erard. Elle fut dédicataire de nombreux ouvrages de musique ou sur la musique des années 1750 aux années 1780 et collabora à l’occasion avec des librettistes. Claveciniste elle-même, elle a probablement eu Jacques Duphly comme maître de clavecin et s’intéressait dans les années 1770-1780 à l’évolution de la facturedes instruments à clavier, jusqu’à essayer des prototypes d’Erard. Elle possédait encore une très belle bibliothèque de musique, dont laquelle ont été incorporées les collections de sa propre famille, les Aumont et les Brouilly, et surtout celle de Louis-André de Brancas, un nobleprovençal qui avait rassemblé dès les années 1720 des partitions pour lui-même et pour doter l’Académie de musique d’Avignon, alors naissante. Cette communication s’attache à évoquer un portrait musical et théâtral de la duchesse de Villeroy, pour exposer les multiples ressorts qui permettaient alors à une aristocrate d’apprécier, pratiquer et soutenir les arts et les artistes. On y évoquera le jeu des protections, des dédicaces, des subventions en argent comme en nature.
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- 2021
22. Talma à l’école de son public
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Julian, Thibaut
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Lettres ,History ,Imagination créatrice ,Comédie-Française ,Interpretation ,Reflection ,Révolution française ,Réflexion ,Histoire ,Talma ,Correspondance ,Interprétation ,Creative imagination ,Observations ,French Revolution - Abstract
Cet article explore la relation de réflexivité critique entre spectateur et comédien, à partir du cas de François-Joseph Talma sous la Révolution. Des spectateurs formulent des critiques et conseils dans des lettres qui ont pu aiguillonner le style actorial de Talma, sa conception de « l’imagination créatrice » et la mission de « professeur d’histoire » qu’il assigne au comédien dans les Réflexions sur Lekain et sur l’art théâtral (1825)., This paper explores the critical reflexivity between actors and the audiences by focusing on François-Joseph Talma during the French Revolution. Admirers wrote letters to Talma filled with advice which may have prompted Talma’s dramatic style, his theory about “creative imagination”, and his belief in an actor’s mission to be like a history teacher, which he would later develop in Réflexions sur Lekain et sur l’art théâtral (1825).
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- 2021
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23. Démolir, transformer ou conserver ? Le sort des églises médiévales de Savigny (Rhône) dans la seconde moitié du xviiie siècle
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Olivia Puel
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lcsh:Language and Literature ,artefacts ,distruzione ,conservazione ,patrimonio religioso ,preservation ,monastère ,conservation ,Rhône ,General Medicine ,religious heritage ,destruction ,Révolution française ,Reception of the Middle Ages ,monastero ,Rivoluzione francese ,lcsh:P ,monastery ,patrimoine religieux ,réception du Moyen Âge ,French Revolution - Abstract
Les églises constituent aujourd’hui, à toutes les échelles du territoire, un témoignage incontournable du Moyen Âge. Cet article invite à s’interroger sur les conséquences réelles de la Révolution française sur ce patrimoine bâti religieux. Saccages et destructions sont souvent associés à cette période troublée qui visait à instaurer une société nouvelle. Ils ne furent pourtant ni systématiques, ni engendrés par un sentiment anti-religieux mais, plus souvent, par un mouvement anti-féodal. On envisagera ici le cas des lieux de culte implantés dans une entité territoriale restreinte : l’abbaye et la paroisse de Savigny, dans le Rhône. À partir d’archives modernes abondantes, on s’attachera à déterminer quel était la perception par la population et la municipalité de ces trois églises – abbatiale, monastique et paroissiale – qui ne connurent pas le même sort dans la seconde moitié du xviiie siècle. Démolir, transformer ou conserver : les réactions variées, parfois contradictoires, des différents protagonistes s’expliquent par les relations qu’ils entretenaient, depuis le Moyen Âge, avec ces édifices. L’histoire des monuments est indissociable de celle des mentalités. Today, churches are, at all levels of the territory, an inescapable testimony of the Middle Ages. This paper invites to consider the real consequences of the French Revolution on this religious built heritage. Ransacking and destruction are often associated with this troubled period that aimed to establish a new society. However, they were neither systematic nor caused by an anti-religious sentiment but, more often, by an anti-feudal movement. This article considers the case of places of worship located in a small territorial entity: the abbey and parish of Savigny, in the Rhone. Based on abundant modern archives, it attempts to determine how the population and the municipality felt about these three churches - abbey, monastery and parish - which did not suffer the same fate in the second half of the 18th century. Demolish, transform or conserve: the varied, sometimes contradictory, reactions of the different protagonists can be explained by the relations they had had with these buildings since the Middle Ages. The history of monuments is inseparable from the history of mentalities.
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- 2020
24. Les maires de la basse et moyenne vallée du Rhône (1790-1816)
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Nicolas Soulas, Centre Norbert Elias (CNELIAS), and École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS)-Avignon Université (AU)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
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Restauration ,French revolution ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Empire ,General Medicine ,Art ,maires ,Révolution française ,mayors ,vallée du Rhône ,Restoration ,[SHS.HIST]Humanities and Social Sciences/History ,Humanities ,Rhone valley ,media_common - Abstract
International audience; In the Rhône valley, a region of strong political antagonism, the choice of a mayor is never the result of random electoral circumstances. This prosopographic investigation studies the turnover of provincial élites. By using diverse scales of analysis, the paper casts a new light on local and regional politics during the French Revolution, the first Empire, the Cent-Jours and the Bourbon Restoration.; Dans une zone de forte conflictualité politique comme le sillon rhodanien, particulièrement marqué par son ancienne tradition municipale, le choix du maire ne résulte pas d’un hasard électoral. Cette approche prosopographique, élaborée à partir d’un corpus de 288 maires choisis dans les bourgs ou les petites villes de six départements rhodaniens, vise à mettre en lumière les processus de renouvellement des élites municipales. Par ailleurs, multiplier les échelles d’analyse apporte un éclairage supplémentaire sur les dynamiques politiques locales et régionales durant la Révolution française, l’Empire, les Cent-Jours et la Restauration.
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- 2017
25. A reactionary newspaper in 1795 : La Quotidienne
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Eljorf, Ghazi, Institut d’Histoire des Représentations et des Idées dans les Modernités (IHRIM), École normale supérieure de Lyon (ENS de Lyon)-Université Lumière - Lyon 2 (UL2)-Université Jean Moulin - Lyon 3 (UJML), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Université Blaise Pascal - Clermont-Ferrand 2 (UBP)-Université Jean Monnet - Saint-Étienne (UJM)-Université Clermont Auvergne [2017-2020] (UCA [2017-2020])-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université de Lyon, Denis Reynaud, École normale supérieure - Lyon (ENS Lyon)-Université Lumière - Lyon 2 (UL2)-Université Jean Moulin - Lyon 3 (UJML), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Université Blaise Pascal - Clermont-Ferrand 2 (UBP)-Université Jean Monnet [Saint-Étienne] (UJM)-Université Clermont Auvergne [2017-2020] (UCA [2017-2020])-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and STAR, ABES
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Neologism ,Littérature ,Political thought ,République ,[SHS.LITT]Humanities and Social Sciences/Literature ,Reaction ,Journalism ,Civilization ,Calendar ,Révolution française ,Lectorat ,[SHS.LITT] Humanities and Social Sciences/Literature ,Chénier ,Réaction ,French Revolution ,Civilisation ,Republic ,Michaud ,Royalism ,Readership ,Religion ,Literature ,Néologisme ,Calendrier ,Royalisme ,Journalisme ,Idéologie ,Gallais - Abstract
Our purpose throughout this research on La Quotidienne, a Parisian daily newspaper, is to deal with an aspect of reactionary thought in France at the end of the Revolution, in 1795 to be precise. Even though the title of this thesis focuses on the Thermidorian Convention, our research includes December 1796 issues, published therefore under the Directory rule. This allows us to consider the evolution of this paper between two political systems.Our thesis mostly focuses on the different genres and forms of literature published in La Quotidienne (poetry, dialogues, theatre…). It was however necessary to first consider the general context of publication: the political history of the Thermidorian Convention, as well as the timid and careful rebirth of press freedom after the 9th Thermidor. Between these two parts, we provide a material description of the newspaper (headings, articles, sections, subscription, etc.)We have read La Quotidienne with curiosity and as objectively as possible; but also with a pleasure derived from our strong attachment to literature and the press. We wish to convey some of this pleasure to our readers, when they discover this somewhat neglected newspaper – a small stage where the main ideas of the time are at play., Nous abordons par le biais de ce journal un chapitre de la pensée réactionnaire en France après la Révolution – précisément en 1795 –, chapitre constitué par un journal favorable à la monarchie, à savoir La Quotidienne. Si le titre de notre thèse se focalise sur la Convention thermidorienne, le corpus de notre recherche comprend également le mois de décembre 1796, sous le Directoire, ce qui nous permet de mesurer l’évolution du journal entre ces deux systèmes politiques. Nous nous intéressons principalement à la littérature publiée dans La Quotidienne, sous des formes et des genres variés (poésie, dialogues, théâtre…), non sans avoir d’abord examiné le contexte de la publication : l’histoire politique de la Convention thermidorienne et la renaissance, timide et mesurée, de la liberté de la presse après le 9 Thermidor. Entre ces deux volets de notre recherche, nous proposons une description matérielle du journal (forme des articles, structuration en rubriques, souscription, etc.)Nous avons lu La Quotidienne d’un œil curieux et aussi objectif que possible ; mais surtout avec plaisir : notre intérêt pour ce journal est en effet né d’une double passion pour la littérature et pour la presse. Nous souhaitons que les lecteurs de cette recherche puissent éprouver le même intérêt pour un journal quelque peu oublié quant à sa période révolutionnaire, mais qui est un petit théâtre où se jouent en direct et de façon originale, les grands enjeux idéologiques de la période.
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26. When the revolutionary rhetoric meets sexual minorities
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Szczur, Przemysław, Staroń, Anita, Zacharow, Sebastian, and Université Pédagogique de Cracovie, Pologne
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sexual minority ,minorité sexuelle ,pamphlet ,Révolution française ,French Revolution ,sexuality ,sexualité - Abstract
The paper discusses the way the rhetoric of human rights, characteristic of the French Revolution, deals with the subject of sexual minorities. The Revolution can be seen as a transition period in which the revolutionary rhetoric collides some ancient images of sexual minorities. The limits of this rhetoric are tested in pamphlets where these minorities appear and that are also full of ancient images: Les Enfans de Sodome à l’Assemblée Nationale, Requête et décret en faveur des putains, des fouteuses, des macquerelles et des branleuses contre les bougres, les bardaches et les brûleurs de paillasses, Les Petits Bougres au Manège and La Liberté ou Mlle Raucourt.
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- 2017
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