Millot,
Discours
sur le patriotisme franc?
Cult of the Nation in France
ois, 2 vols.
(Avignon, 1760), I, 14.
See also Jacob-Nicolas Moreau, Mes souvenirs, Camille Hermelin, ed.
, 2 vols.
(Paris, 1898), esp.
I, 57-62; Baker, Inventing (see Intro.
, n.
17), 61-5; Dieter Gembicki, Histoire et politique a` la fin de l'ancien re?
gime: Jacob-Nicolas Moreau (1717-1803) (Geneva, 1976); Dziembowski, Un nouveau patriotisme, esp.
60-7.
23. Thus Keith Baker identifies the early 1750s as the moment when French poli- tics broke out of the "absolutist mold. " Baker, Inventing, 170. See also, in gen- eral, Van Kley, The Damiens Affair.
24. See in general on this literature, Shanti Marie Singham, "'A Conspiracy of Twenty Million Frenchmen': Public Opinion, Patriotism, and the Assault on Absolutism during the Maupeou Years, 1770-1775," Ph. D. diss. , Princeton University (1991), and Echeverria, The Maupeou Revolution, esp. 37-122.
25. On the vicissitudes of the concept of public opinion, which has received enormous attention in the last decade, see above all Ozouf, "L'opinion publique" (see Ch. 1, n. 16), and Baker, Inventing, 167-99. Notes to Pages 55-58
26. Henri de Boulainvilliers, Etat de la France, 2 vols. (London, 1727), I, 15-49.
27. See Rene? e Simon, Henry de Boulainviller [sic]: Historien, politique, philosophe, astrologue: 1658-1722 (Paris, 1941); Paul Vernie`re, Spinoza et la pense? e franc? aise avant la Re? volution, 2 vols. (Paris, 1954), I, 306-22. The most recent biography, and the most sophisticated in its study of Boulainvilliers' political writings (even if it does not do enough to integrate his religious and political thought) is Harold A. Ellis, Boulainvilliers and the French Monarchy: Aristo-
cratic Politics in Early Eighteenth-Century France (Ithaca, 1988).
28. Ellis, 78, and more generally, 57-91.
29. For an excellent overview of these arguments see Wright, "National Sover-
eignty and the General Will" (see Intro. , n. 69). The works had a wide reader- ship as shown by the new research on eighteenth-century French political culture cited above in Intro. , n. 32. See particularly Chartier, Cultural Origins, and Van Kley, The Damiens Affair.
30. For the fullest discussion of this material, see Bickart, Les parlements (see Intro. , n. 45), and Daniel Carroll Joynes, "Jansenists and Ideologues: Opposi- tion Theory in the Parlement of Paris (1750-1775)," Ph. D. diss. , University of Chicago (1981).
242
Notes to Pages 58-60
? 31.
32.
The quotes are from the controversial legal brief that prompted d'Aguesseau's comments on public opinion, [Franc? ois de Maraimberg], Me? moire pour les Sieurs Samson Cure? d'Olivet, Coue? t cure? de Darvoi, Gaucher chanoine de Jargeau, Dioce`se d'Orle? ans (Paris, 1730), 3. At least 3,000 copies of the brief were circulated. On this text and the controversy surrounding it, see Bell, Lawyers and Citizens, 91-104.
Parlements of Rouen, Paris (twice) and Besanc? on, quoted in Bickart, Les parlements, 54. In general on the phenomenon, see Bickart, 71-142, and more recently, Joynes, "Jansenists and Ideologues"; and Van Kley, The Damiens Af- fair, 166-225. The same strategists promoted the theory of the "union des classes," according to which the individual provincial parlements each formed a part of a larger national parlement. On the newspapers, which were the principal independent sources of news in France before the 1760s, see Popkin, News and Politics, and his "The Pre-Revolutionary Origins of Revo- lutionary Journalism" (see Ch. 1, n. 58).
[Louis-Adrien Le Paige], Lettres historiques sur les fonctions essentielles du Parlement, sur les droits de Pairs, et sur les lois fondamentales du Royaume, 2 vols. (Amsterdam, 1753-54); and his, Lettre sur les lits de justice (n. p. , 1756). Jacques-Be? nigne Bossuet, Politics Drawn from the Very Words of Holy Scrip- ture, trans. and ed. Patrick Riley (Cambridge, 1990), 16.
Jean-Baptiste Dubos, Histoire critique de l'e? tablissement de la Monarchie franc? aise dans les Gaules (Amsterdam, 1735).
Jules Flammermont, ed. , Remontrances du Parlement de Paris au XVIIIe sie`cle, 3 vols. (Paris, 1888), II, 186.
"The Session of the Scourging," in Keith Michael Baker, ed. , The Old Regime and the French Revolution (Chicago, 1987), 47-50, quote from 49.
See Bickart, 68-70.
Paul A. Friedland, "Representation and Revolution: The Theatricality of Poli- tics and the Politics of Theater in France, 1789-1794," Ph. D. diss. , University of California, Berkeley (1995); Baker, Inventing, 224-51. Friedland likens the process at one point to Catholic notions of transsubstantiation (105). Montesquieu, The Spirit of the Laws (see Intro. , n. 41), 544.
For example, see the following works: Michel Desjardins, Le patriotisme (n. p. , 1759); Franc? ois-Charles Vallier, Le citoyen, poe`me (Nancy, 1759); Claude- Franc? ois-Xavier Millot, Discours sur le patriotisme franc? ois (Lyon, 1762); Louis Basset de la Marelle, La diffe? rence du patriotisme national chez les franc? ois et chez les anglois (Paris, 1766); Joseph-Antoine-Joachim Cerutti, Discours qui a remporte? le prix de l'e? loquence a` l'Acade? mie de Toulouse, le 3 mai 1760 (Lyon, 1760); Antoine-Jacques Roustan, Offrande aux autels et a` la patrie, contenant De? fense du Christianisme ou re? futation du chapitre VIII du [livre IV du] Contrat Social; Examen historique des quatre beaux sie`cles de Mr.
33.
34.
35.
Notes to Pages 58-60
36. 37.
38. 39.
40. 41.
de Voltaire; Quels sont les moyens de tirer un peuple de sa corruption (Amster-
dam, 1764).
42. Chevalier de Jaucourt, "Patrie" (see Ch. 1, n. 75), 178.
43. Elie-Lefebvre, in "Le de? bat," 100-108, agrees that very few texts put the
patrie's autonomy from the king at the heart of political arguments.
44. See, for instance, The? odore Lombard, Discours . . . sur ses paroles: L'amour de la patrie (Toulouse, 1742); Jean-Baptiste Geoffroy, De amore patriae oratorio
(Paris, 1744).
45. Plaidoyer of Louis Chevalier, May 9, 1716, in Plaidoyers de Mr. Joly, en faveur
des trois chanoines, & des trois Curez de Reims, pour e^tre de? charge? s de la sen- tence d'excommunication prononce? e contr'eux, le 17. juin 1715, au sujet de la Constitution Unigenitus (Paris, 1716), in Bibliothe`que Nationale, main collec- tion. Ld-4 802, p. 24. On the context for the remarks, see Bell, Lawyers and Citizens, 75-9.
46. For instance, De la nature de la Gra^ce . . . de? die? a` Messieurs les Avocats du Parlement de Paris (n. p. , 1739), 6.
47. [abbe? Coyer], Dissertations pour e^tre lues: La premie`re, sur le vieux mot de patrie; la seconde, sur la nature du peuple (The Hague, 1755), 9, 31. The first part of this work has recently been republished: Edmond Dziembowski, ed. , Ecrits sur le patriotisme, l'esprit public & la propagande au milieu du XVIIIe
sie`cle (La Rochelle, 1997), 41-53.
48. Jaucourt, "Patrie"; Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile, ou de l'e? ducation (Paris,
1966), 40. See also his article "Political Economy" for the Encyclope? die, in
which he claimed that love of the patrie is treated with derision.
49. Basset de la Marelle, La diffe? rence, 3; Rossel, Histoire du patriotisme franc? ois, 8 vols. (Paris, 1769), I, vi; Geoffroy, De amore patriae, 3. Norman Hampson, in "La patrie," 127, argues that during the pre-revolution of 1787-1789, "con- servatives" tended to use the word "patrie," while opponents of the monarchy used "patriote. " His observation is quite correct, but he does not examine the reason for this dichotomy, namely that the "patriotes" did not believe the patrie actually existed and had to be created, while their opponents believed
that it did exist and indeed was inseparable from the monarchy.
50. Quoted in Contamine, "Mourir pour la patrie," 31. On later French expres-
sions of the idea, see Viroli, 73-6. Chantreau, quoted in Dupuy, "Gene`se," 68.
51. Baptestein, Me? moire (see Ch. 1, n. 103), 2.
52. Coyer, 42.
53. Quoted in Bickart, Les parlements, 30.
54. [Edme-Franc? ois Darigrand], Antifinancier (n. p. , 1763), 7.
55. I reject the argument of Steven Englund in "The Ghost of Nation Past" (see
Intro. , n. 35), 315: "Who is using patrie and its derivations, patriotisme, patriote? Is it kings and ministers vis-a`-vis popes or ultramontanes? Or is it
Notes to Pages 60-63 243
? Notes to Pages 60-63
244
Notes to Pages 63-65
? 56. 57.
58.
more often municipalities, parlements, and aristocracies in opposition to centralizing monarchs? " In fact, the evidence shows that it was precisely the centralizing monarchs who used the word patrie most often.
Millot, Discours sur le patriotisme franc? ois (Lyon, 1762), 3, 15. Philippe-Auguste de Sainte-Foix, chevalier d'Arcq, La noblesse militaire (1756), iii; Beausobre, quoted in Elie-Lefebvre, "Le de? bat," 102.
Rossel, Histoire du patriotisme franc? ois. The manuscript essays submitted to the contest do not appear to have survived in the archives. Entries that were printed include Baptestein, Me? moire; Cle? ment-Alexandre de Brie-Serrant, Ecrit adresse? a` l'Acade? mie de Cha^lons-sur-Marne, sur une question propose? e par voie de concours, concernant le patriotisme (n. p. , 1787); Johan Meerman, Discours pre? sente? a` l'Acade? mie de Cha^lons-sur-Marne en 1787 (Leiden, 1787); E. Mignonneau, Re? flexions politiques sur la question propose? e par l'Acade? mie de Cha^lons (Paris, 1787); and the winner, Charles-Joseph Mathon de la Cour, Discours sur les meilleurs moyens de faire nai^tre et d'encourager le patriotisme dans une monarchie; qui a remporte? le prix dans l'Acade? mie de Cha^lons-sur- Marne, le 25 aou^t, 1787 (Paris, 1787). All of these works stressed the compati- bility of monarchy and patriotism, although the anonymously published Discours sur le patriotisme of 1788 (see Intro. , n. 56), which appears to have been provoked by the contest but not submitted for the prize, argued the op- posite case.
Me? morial pittoresque de la France, ou recueil de toutes les belles actions, traits de courage, de bienfaisance, de patriotisme et d'humanite? , arrive? s depuis le re`gne de Henri IV jusqu'a` nos jours (Paris, 1786). On depictions of the great men, see Chapter 4, and Bonnet, Naissance du Panthe? on (see Intro. , n. 48), 131-32.
Pierre Buirette de Belloy, Oeuvres complettes de M. de Belloy, de l'Acade? mie Franc? aise (Paris, 1779), 32. This text probably first appeared in 1775. See Simon Schama, Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution (New York, 1989), 37.
The exact degree of royal sponsorship of the play has been the subject of con- siderable discussion. See especially Clarence D. Brenner, L'histoire nationale dans la trage? die franc? aise du dix-huitie`me sie`cle (Berkeley, 1929), 253-65; Mar- garet M. Moffat, "'Le sie`ge de Calais' et l'opinion publique en 1765," Revue d'histoire litte? raire de la France, 39 (1932), 339-54; Lennard Breitholz, Le the? a^tre historique en France jusqu'a` la Re? volution (Uppsala, 1952), 191-202; Carmen Biondi, "Le sie`ge de Calais di Dormont de Belloy [sic]: Ragioni di un successo," in Intorno a Montesquieu (Pisa, 1970), 5-20; Boe? s, La lanterne magique (see Intro. , n. 44), 98-103.
Belloy, Le sie`ge de Calais (see Ch. 1, n. 104), 48. The eulogist, in Belloy, Oeuvres, 33, makes clear the line was directed against the philosophes.
Notes to Pages 63-65
59.
60.
61.
62.
63. Louis-Se? bastien Mercier, L'an 2440 (London, 1772), 267.
64. [Louis Petit de Bachaumont, et al. ], Me? moires secrets pour servir a` l'histoire de
la re? publique des lettres en France, 36 vols. (London, 1777-1789), VI, 39; Baron Grimm similarly reported that those who dared criticize the play and its obsequious royalism "are regarded as bad citizens. " Quoted in Boe? s, La lanterne magique, 70.
65. The point has been exhaustively demonstrated by Dziembowski in Un nou- veau patriotisme franc? ais.
66. "Six months ago you caused one revolution in the opinions of this country; now you must cause another one. " Moreau, Mes souvenirs, I, 59.
67. In the newspaper he identified his enemies as "so-called philosophes," and people "who have tried to restrict the exercise of authority," and explicitly linked the former to the English enemy: "A contagious epidemic malady has come to us from England: it is called the philosophical spirit. " Moreau, Le Moniteur, I, 77, 19. On Moreau's enterprise, see Dziembowski, "Les de? buts d'un publiciste" (see Ch. 1, n. 98). Two introductory essays from the Moniteur have been published in Dziembowski, ed. , Ecrits, 57-74 and 75-83.
68. On this literature, see Darrin McMahon, Enemies of Enlightenment (New
York, 2001).
Notes to Pages 65-67
69. Le patriotisme, poe`me (see Ch. 1, n. 86), 4, 11.
70. See Beaune, Naissance (see Intro. , n. 12), esp. 417-53.
71. Moreau, Moniteur franc? ois, I, 27.
72. Recueil des pie`ces d'e? loquence et de poe? sie qui ont remporte? les Prix de
l'Acade? mie Franc? oise, depuis 1747 jusqu'en 1753 (Paris, 1753). See also Denis- Ponce Ecouchard Lebrun, "Ode: L'amour des Franc? ais pour leurs Rois, consacre? par les monuments publics," in Denis-Ponce Ecouchard Lebrun, Oeuvres, P. L. Ginguene? , ed. , 4 vols. (Paris, 1811), 16-22. Nathalie Elie- Lefebvre writes that "in sum, one can say that the idea of patrie is practically inseparable from love for the king" (108).
73. Basset de la Marelle, 24. See also, for instance, Sobry, Le mode franc? ois (see Ch. 1, n. 63), 11; Annonces, affiches et avis divers ou Journal ge? ne? ral de France, 156 (1782), 1317-18; Ferlus, Le patriotisme chre? tien (see Ch. 1, n. 75), 5; Fourot, Code patriotique de rivalite? et d'e? mulation nationale, pacifique et guerriere (London, 1788), 25; Fauchet, De la religion nationale (Paris, 1789), 2.
74. Thomas Kaiser, "Louis le Bien-Aime? and the Rhetoric of the Royal Body," in Sara E. Melzer and Kathryn Norberg, eds. , From the Royal to the Republi- can Body: Incorporating the Political in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century France (Berkeley, 1998), 131-61.
75. The reference is to Jacques-Be? nigne Bossuet, Politics, which was first pub- lished posthumously in 1709. See Merrick's authoritative The Desacralization of the French Monarchy (see Intro. , n. 32).
Notes to Pages 65-67 245
? 246
Notes to Pages 67-71
? 76. 77.
78. 79.
80.
Notes to Pages 67-71
81.
82. 83.
84.
85. 86.
87. 88. 89.
Bibliothe`que de Port-Royal, Collection Le Paige, 17, 794.
In general on this shift, see Singham, "A Conspiracy," Echeverria, The Maupeou Revolution, and Van Kley, The Religious Origins (see Intro. , n. 66), 249-302. Even so, the "patriote" pamphlets still used the words "patriote" and "patriotique" less frequently than "nation. "
Lettre a` M. le Comte de xxx sur l'obe? issance que les militaires doivent aux commandements du Prince (n. p. , [1771]), 12.
See, for instance [Darigrand], Antifinancier, 7; Pierre-Etienne Regnaud, Histoire des evenemens arrive? s en France depuis le mois de septembre MDCCLXX concernans les Parlements & les changements dans l'Administra- tion de la justice & dans les loix du Royaume (Paris, 1772), in Bibliothe`que Nationale, Cabinet des Manuscrits, Manuscrits Franc? ais 13733-35, I, 1; [Bachaumont, et al. ], Me? moires secrets, V, 223 (March 7, 1772).
See, for a summary of this literature, Singham, "A Conspiracy," 77-161. Among the most notable examples of the literature are L'avocat national, ou lettre d'un patriote au Sieur Bouquet, dans laquelle on de? fend la ve? rite? , les loix et la patrie contre le syste`me qu'il a publie? dans un ouvrage intitule? Lettres provinciales (Paris, 1774).
In the ARTFL database there are 14 words beginning with "patriot-" out of a total of 1,387,549 for the period 1765-1769, or a frequency of 1. 00 per 100,000. For the period 1770-1774 there are 88 out of 2,286,660, or a fre- quency of 3. 85 per 100,000.
On "revolution," see Baker, Inventing, 203-23.
Louis Brancas, Comte de Lauragais: Extrait du droit public de la France (n. p. , [1771]), 45.
Quoted in Singham, "A Conspiracy," 137. See also notably Mathieu-Franc? ois Pidansat de Mairobert, Journal historique de la Re? volution ope? re? e dans la con- stitution de la monarchie franc? aise par M. de Maupeou, 5 vols. (London, 1775); Guy-Jean-Baptiste Target, Lettres d'un homme a` un autre homme sur les affaires du temps (n. p. , 1771).
Bibliothe`que de la Socie? te? de Port-Royal, Collection Le Paige 571, no.
23. Thus Keith Baker identifies the early 1750s as the moment when French poli- tics broke out of the "absolutist mold. " Baker, Inventing, 170. See also, in gen- eral, Van Kley, The Damiens Affair.
24. See in general on this literature, Shanti Marie Singham, "'A Conspiracy of Twenty Million Frenchmen': Public Opinion, Patriotism, and the Assault on Absolutism during the Maupeou Years, 1770-1775," Ph. D. diss. , Princeton University (1991), and Echeverria, The Maupeou Revolution, esp. 37-122.
25. On the vicissitudes of the concept of public opinion, which has received enormous attention in the last decade, see above all Ozouf, "L'opinion publique" (see Ch. 1, n. 16), and Baker, Inventing, 167-99. Notes to Pages 55-58
26. Henri de Boulainvilliers, Etat de la France, 2 vols. (London, 1727), I, 15-49.
27. See Rene? e Simon, Henry de Boulainviller [sic]: Historien, politique, philosophe, astrologue: 1658-1722 (Paris, 1941); Paul Vernie`re, Spinoza et la pense? e franc? aise avant la Re? volution, 2 vols. (Paris, 1954), I, 306-22. The most recent biography, and the most sophisticated in its study of Boulainvilliers' political writings (even if it does not do enough to integrate his religious and political thought) is Harold A. Ellis, Boulainvilliers and the French Monarchy: Aristo-
cratic Politics in Early Eighteenth-Century France (Ithaca, 1988).
28. Ellis, 78, and more generally, 57-91.
29. For an excellent overview of these arguments see Wright, "National Sover-
eignty and the General Will" (see Intro. , n. 69). The works had a wide reader- ship as shown by the new research on eighteenth-century French political culture cited above in Intro. , n. 32. See particularly Chartier, Cultural Origins, and Van Kley, The Damiens Affair.
30. For the fullest discussion of this material, see Bickart, Les parlements (see Intro. , n. 45), and Daniel Carroll Joynes, "Jansenists and Ideologues: Opposi- tion Theory in the Parlement of Paris (1750-1775)," Ph. D. diss. , University of Chicago (1981).
242
Notes to Pages 58-60
? 31.
32.
The quotes are from the controversial legal brief that prompted d'Aguesseau's comments on public opinion, [Franc? ois de Maraimberg], Me? moire pour les Sieurs Samson Cure? d'Olivet, Coue? t cure? de Darvoi, Gaucher chanoine de Jargeau, Dioce`se d'Orle? ans (Paris, 1730), 3. At least 3,000 copies of the brief were circulated. On this text and the controversy surrounding it, see Bell, Lawyers and Citizens, 91-104.
Parlements of Rouen, Paris (twice) and Besanc? on, quoted in Bickart, Les parlements, 54. In general on the phenomenon, see Bickart, 71-142, and more recently, Joynes, "Jansenists and Ideologues"; and Van Kley, The Damiens Af- fair, 166-225. The same strategists promoted the theory of the "union des classes," according to which the individual provincial parlements each formed a part of a larger national parlement. On the newspapers, which were the principal independent sources of news in France before the 1760s, see Popkin, News and Politics, and his "The Pre-Revolutionary Origins of Revo- lutionary Journalism" (see Ch. 1, n. 58).
[Louis-Adrien Le Paige], Lettres historiques sur les fonctions essentielles du Parlement, sur les droits de Pairs, et sur les lois fondamentales du Royaume, 2 vols. (Amsterdam, 1753-54); and his, Lettre sur les lits de justice (n. p. , 1756). Jacques-Be? nigne Bossuet, Politics Drawn from the Very Words of Holy Scrip- ture, trans. and ed. Patrick Riley (Cambridge, 1990), 16.
Jean-Baptiste Dubos, Histoire critique de l'e? tablissement de la Monarchie franc? aise dans les Gaules (Amsterdam, 1735).
Jules Flammermont, ed. , Remontrances du Parlement de Paris au XVIIIe sie`cle, 3 vols. (Paris, 1888), II, 186.
"The Session of the Scourging," in Keith Michael Baker, ed. , The Old Regime and the French Revolution (Chicago, 1987), 47-50, quote from 49.
See Bickart, 68-70.
Paul A. Friedland, "Representation and Revolution: The Theatricality of Poli- tics and the Politics of Theater in France, 1789-1794," Ph. D. diss. , University of California, Berkeley (1995); Baker, Inventing, 224-51. Friedland likens the process at one point to Catholic notions of transsubstantiation (105). Montesquieu, The Spirit of the Laws (see Intro. , n. 41), 544.
For example, see the following works: Michel Desjardins, Le patriotisme (n. p. , 1759); Franc? ois-Charles Vallier, Le citoyen, poe`me (Nancy, 1759); Claude- Franc? ois-Xavier Millot, Discours sur le patriotisme franc? ois (Lyon, 1762); Louis Basset de la Marelle, La diffe? rence du patriotisme national chez les franc? ois et chez les anglois (Paris, 1766); Joseph-Antoine-Joachim Cerutti, Discours qui a remporte? le prix de l'e? loquence a` l'Acade? mie de Toulouse, le 3 mai 1760 (Lyon, 1760); Antoine-Jacques Roustan, Offrande aux autels et a` la patrie, contenant De? fense du Christianisme ou re? futation du chapitre VIII du [livre IV du] Contrat Social; Examen historique des quatre beaux sie`cles de Mr.
33.
34.
35.
Notes to Pages 58-60
36. 37.
38. 39.
40. 41.
de Voltaire; Quels sont les moyens de tirer un peuple de sa corruption (Amster-
dam, 1764).
42. Chevalier de Jaucourt, "Patrie" (see Ch. 1, n. 75), 178.
43. Elie-Lefebvre, in "Le de? bat," 100-108, agrees that very few texts put the
patrie's autonomy from the king at the heart of political arguments.
44. See, for instance, The? odore Lombard, Discours . . . sur ses paroles: L'amour de la patrie (Toulouse, 1742); Jean-Baptiste Geoffroy, De amore patriae oratorio
(Paris, 1744).
45. Plaidoyer of Louis Chevalier, May 9, 1716, in Plaidoyers de Mr. Joly, en faveur
des trois chanoines, & des trois Curez de Reims, pour e^tre de? charge? s de la sen- tence d'excommunication prononce? e contr'eux, le 17. juin 1715, au sujet de la Constitution Unigenitus (Paris, 1716), in Bibliothe`que Nationale, main collec- tion. Ld-4 802, p. 24. On the context for the remarks, see Bell, Lawyers and Citizens, 75-9.
46. For instance, De la nature de la Gra^ce . . . de? die? a` Messieurs les Avocats du Parlement de Paris (n. p. , 1739), 6.
47. [abbe? Coyer], Dissertations pour e^tre lues: La premie`re, sur le vieux mot de patrie; la seconde, sur la nature du peuple (The Hague, 1755), 9, 31. The first part of this work has recently been republished: Edmond Dziembowski, ed. , Ecrits sur le patriotisme, l'esprit public & la propagande au milieu du XVIIIe
sie`cle (La Rochelle, 1997), 41-53.
48. Jaucourt, "Patrie"; Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile, ou de l'e? ducation (Paris,
1966), 40. See also his article "Political Economy" for the Encyclope? die, in
which he claimed that love of the patrie is treated with derision.
49. Basset de la Marelle, La diffe? rence, 3; Rossel, Histoire du patriotisme franc? ois, 8 vols. (Paris, 1769), I, vi; Geoffroy, De amore patriae, 3. Norman Hampson, in "La patrie," 127, argues that during the pre-revolution of 1787-1789, "con- servatives" tended to use the word "patrie," while opponents of the monarchy used "patriote. " His observation is quite correct, but he does not examine the reason for this dichotomy, namely that the "patriotes" did not believe the patrie actually existed and had to be created, while their opponents believed
that it did exist and indeed was inseparable from the monarchy.
50. Quoted in Contamine, "Mourir pour la patrie," 31. On later French expres-
sions of the idea, see Viroli, 73-6. Chantreau, quoted in Dupuy, "Gene`se," 68.
51. Baptestein, Me? moire (see Ch. 1, n. 103), 2.
52. Coyer, 42.
53. Quoted in Bickart, Les parlements, 30.
54. [Edme-Franc? ois Darigrand], Antifinancier (n. p. , 1763), 7.
55. I reject the argument of Steven Englund in "The Ghost of Nation Past" (see
Intro. , n. 35), 315: "Who is using patrie and its derivations, patriotisme, patriote? Is it kings and ministers vis-a`-vis popes or ultramontanes? Or is it
Notes to Pages 60-63 243
? Notes to Pages 60-63
244
Notes to Pages 63-65
? 56. 57.
58.
more often municipalities, parlements, and aristocracies in opposition to centralizing monarchs? " In fact, the evidence shows that it was precisely the centralizing monarchs who used the word patrie most often.
Millot, Discours sur le patriotisme franc? ois (Lyon, 1762), 3, 15. Philippe-Auguste de Sainte-Foix, chevalier d'Arcq, La noblesse militaire (1756), iii; Beausobre, quoted in Elie-Lefebvre, "Le de? bat," 102.
Rossel, Histoire du patriotisme franc? ois. The manuscript essays submitted to the contest do not appear to have survived in the archives. Entries that were printed include Baptestein, Me? moire; Cle? ment-Alexandre de Brie-Serrant, Ecrit adresse? a` l'Acade? mie de Cha^lons-sur-Marne, sur une question propose? e par voie de concours, concernant le patriotisme (n. p. , 1787); Johan Meerman, Discours pre? sente? a` l'Acade? mie de Cha^lons-sur-Marne en 1787 (Leiden, 1787); E. Mignonneau, Re? flexions politiques sur la question propose? e par l'Acade? mie de Cha^lons (Paris, 1787); and the winner, Charles-Joseph Mathon de la Cour, Discours sur les meilleurs moyens de faire nai^tre et d'encourager le patriotisme dans une monarchie; qui a remporte? le prix dans l'Acade? mie de Cha^lons-sur- Marne, le 25 aou^t, 1787 (Paris, 1787). All of these works stressed the compati- bility of monarchy and patriotism, although the anonymously published Discours sur le patriotisme of 1788 (see Intro. , n. 56), which appears to have been provoked by the contest but not submitted for the prize, argued the op- posite case.
Me? morial pittoresque de la France, ou recueil de toutes les belles actions, traits de courage, de bienfaisance, de patriotisme et d'humanite? , arrive? s depuis le re`gne de Henri IV jusqu'a` nos jours (Paris, 1786). On depictions of the great men, see Chapter 4, and Bonnet, Naissance du Panthe? on (see Intro. , n. 48), 131-32.
Pierre Buirette de Belloy, Oeuvres complettes de M. de Belloy, de l'Acade? mie Franc? aise (Paris, 1779), 32. This text probably first appeared in 1775. See Simon Schama, Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution (New York, 1989), 37.
The exact degree of royal sponsorship of the play has been the subject of con- siderable discussion. See especially Clarence D. Brenner, L'histoire nationale dans la trage? die franc? aise du dix-huitie`me sie`cle (Berkeley, 1929), 253-65; Mar- garet M. Moffat, "'Le sie`ge de Calais' et l'opinion publique en 1765," Revue d'histoire litte? raire de la France, 39 (1932), 339-54; Lennard Breitholz, Le the? a^tre historique en France jusqu'a` la Re? volution (Uppsala, 1952), 191-202; Carmen Biondi, "Le sie`ge de Calais di Dormont de Belloy [sic]: Ragioni di un successo," in Intorno a Montesquieu (Pisa, 1970), 5-20; Boe? s, La lanterne magique (see Intro. , n. 44), 98-103.
Belloy, Le sie`ge de Calais (see Ch. 1, n. 104), 48. The eulogist, in Belloy, Oeuvres, 33, makes clear the line was directed against the philosophes.
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60.
61.
62.
63. Louis-Se? bastien Mercier, L'an 2440 (London, 1772), 267.
64. [Louis Petit de Bachaumont, et al. ], Me? moires secrets pour servir a` l'histoire de
la re? publique des lettres en France, 36 vols. (London, 1777-1789), VI, 39; Baron Grimm similarly reported that those who dared criticize the play and its obsequious royalism "are regarded as bad citizens. " Quoted in Boe? s, La lanterne magique, 70.
65. The point has been exhaustively demonstrated by Dziembowski in Un nou- veau patriotisme franc? ais.
66. "Six months ago you caused one revolution in the opinions of this country; now you must cause another one. " Moreau, Mes souvenirs, I, 59.
67. In the newspaper he identified his enemies as "so-called philosophes," and people "who have tried to restrict the exercise of authority," and explicitly linked the former to the English enemy: "A contagious epidemic malady has come to us from England: it is called the philosophical spirit. " Moreau, Le Moniteur, I, 77, 19. On Moreau's enterprise, see Dziembowski, "Les de? buts d'un publiciste" (see Ch. 1, n. 98). Two introductory essays from the Moniteur have been published in Dziembowski, ed. , Ecrits, 57-74 and 75-83.
68. On this literature, see Darrin McMahon, Enemies of Enlightenment (New
York, 2001).
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69. Le patriotisme, poe`me (see Ch. 1, n. 86), 4, 11.
70. See Beaune, Naissance (see Intro. , n. 12), esp. 417-53.
71. Moreau, Moniteur franc? ois, I, 27.
72. Recueil des pie`ces d'e? loquence et de poe? sie qui ont remporte? les Prix de
l'Acade? mie Franc? oise, depuis 1747 jusqu'en 1753 (Paris, 1753). See also Denis- Ponce Ecouchard Lebrun, "Ode: L'amour des Franc? ais pour leurs Rois, consacre? par les monuments publics," in Denis-Ponce Ecouchard Lebrun, Oeuvres, P. L. Ginguene? , ed. , 4 vols. (Paris, 1811), 16-22. Nathalie Elie- Lefebvre writes that "in sum, one can say that the idea of patrie is practically inseparable from love for the king" (108).
73. Basset de la Marelle, 24. See also, for instance, Sobry, Le mode franc? ois (see Ch. 1, n. 63), 11; Annonces, affiches et avis divers ou Journal ge? ne? ral de France, 156 (1782), 1317-18; Ferlus, Le patriotisme chre? tien (see Ch. 1, n. 75), 5; Fourot, Code patriotique de rivalite? et d'e? mulation nationale, pacifique et guerriere (London, 1788), 25; Fauchet, De la religion nationale (Paris, 1789), 2.
74. Thomas Kaiser, "Louis le Bien-Aime? and the Rhetoric of the Royal Body," in Sara E. Melzer and Kathryn Norberg, eds. , From the Royal to the Republi- can Body: Incorporating the Political in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century France (Berkeley, 1998), 131-61.
75. The reference is to Jacques-Be? nigne Bossuet, Politics, which was first pub- lished posthumously in 1709. See Merrick's authoritative The Desacralization of the French Monarchy (see Intro. , n. 32).
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In general on this shift, see Singham, "A Conspiracy," Echeverria, The Maupeou Revolution, and Van Kley, The Religious Origins (see Intro. , n. 66), 249-302. Even so, the "patriote" pamphlets still used the words "patriote" and "patriotique" less frequently than "nation. "
Lettre a` M. le Comte de xxx sur l'obe? issance que les militaires doivent aux commandements du Prince (n. p. , [1771]), 12.
See, for instance [Darigrand], Antifinancier, 7; Pierre-Etienne Regnaud, Histoire des evenemens arrive? s en France depuis le mois de septembre MDCCLXX concernans les Parlements & les changements dans l'Administra- tion de la justice & dans les loix du Royaume (Paris, 1772), in Bibliothe`que Nationale, Cabinet des Manuscrits, Manuscrits Franc? ais 13733-35, I, 1; [Bachaumont, et al. ], Me? moires secrets, V, 223 (March 7, 1772).
See, for a summary of this literature, Singham, "A Conspiracy," 77-161. Among the most notable examples of the literature are L'avocat national, ou lettre d'un patriote au Sieur Bouquet, dans laquelle on de? fend la ve? rite? , les loix et la patrie contre le syste`me qu'il a publie? dans un ouvrage intitule? Lettres provinciales (Paris, 1774).
In the ARTFL database there are 14 words beginning with "patriot-" out of a total of 1,387,549 for the period 1765-1769, or a frequency of 1. 00 per 100,000. For the period 1770-1774 there are 88 out of 2,286,660, or a fre- quency of 3. 85 per 100,000.
On "revolution," see Baker, Inventing, 203-23.
Louis Brancas, Comte de Lauragais: Extrait du droit public de la France (n. p. , [1771]), 45.
Quoted in Singham, "A Conspiracy," 137. See also notably Mathieu-Franc? ois Pidansat de Mairobert, Journal historique de la Re? volution ope? re? e dans la con- stitution de la monarchie franc? aise par M. de Maupeou, 5 vols. (London, 1775); Guy-Jean-Baptiste Target, Lettres d'un homme a` un autre homme sur les affaires du temps (n. p. , 1771).
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