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Nobility Reimagined
The mature nationalism that fueled the French Revolution grew from patriotic sensibilities fostered over the course of a century or more. Jay M. Smith proposes that the French thought their way to nationhood through a process of psychic adjustment premised on the reimagining of nobility, a social category and moral concept that had long dominated the cultural horizons of the old regime. Nobility Reimagined follows the elaboration of French patriotism across the eighteenth century and highlights the accentuation of key, and conflicting, features of patriotic thought at defining moments in the history of the monarchy. By enabling the articulation of different futures for nobility and nation, t...
Le chancelier Henri François d'Aguesseau (1668-1751)
Connu de tous les juristes, mais à peu près ignoré du grand public, le chancelier Henri François d'Aguesseau reste, au ministère de la Justice comme au prétoire, la référence obligée de l'intégrité du magistrat et de l'indépendance de la justice. Savant émérite, jurisconsulte distingué, magistrat applaudi, mais homme politique dénigré, mathématicien en herbe, poète à ses heures, philosophe et moraliste, né en 1668, mort en 1751, il a traversé l'un des siècles les plus riches d'évolutions dans tous les domaines. Placé au sommet de la hiérarchie politique de son temps, il a approché non seulement deux rois tels que Louis XIV et Louis XV, mais aussi toutes les plus hautes personnalités de la politique, de la pensée, de la science et de la littérature de ce début du XVIIIe siècle. Sans doute le jurisconsulte l'emporte-t-il, chez lui, sur le ministre, mais il était bon de faire justice de l'oubli dans lequel est aujourd'hui plongé ce personnage aux intérêts si divers.
Bastards
Children born out of wedlock were commonly stigmatized as "bastards" in early modern France. Deprived of inheritance, they were said to have neither kin nor kind, neither family nor nation. Why was this the case? Gentler alternatives to "bastard" existed in early modern French discourse, and many natural parents voluntarily recognized and cared for their extramarital offspring.Drawing upon a wide array of archival and published sources, Matthew Gerber has reconstructed numerous disputes over the rights and disabilities of children born out of wedlock in order to illuminate the changing legal condition and practical treatment of extramarital offspring over a period of two and half centuries. ...
The Cult of the Nation in France
In a work of lucid prose and striking originality, Bell offers the first comprehensive survey of patriotism and national sentiment in early modern France, and shows how the dialectical relationship between nationalism and religion left a complex legacy that still resonates in debates over French national identity today. Table of Contents: Preface Introduction: Constructing the Nation 1. The National and the Sacred 2. The Politics of Patriotism and National Sentiment 3. English Barbarians, French Martyrs 4. National Memory and the Canon of Great Frenchmen 5. National Character and the Republican Imagination 6. National Language and the Revolutionary Crucible Conclusion: Toward the Present Day...
Louis XV and the Parlement of Paris, 1737-55
An account of the relationship between Louis XV, the clergy of France, and the Parlement of Paris in the mid-eighteenth century.
