Gabriel Michel de la Rochemaillet, Pourtraictz de plvsievrs hommes illvstres qvi
ont flory en France depvis l'an 1500 ivsques a` present (Paris, 1600) printed as a broadside (Bibliothe`que Nationale, Cabinet des Estampes, Hennin 1200/ G151576).
ont flory en France depvis l'an 1500 ivsques a` present (Paris, 1600) printed as a broadside (Bibliothe`que Nationale, Cabinet des Estampes, Hennin 1200/ G151576).
Cult of the Nation in France
Colbert quoted in Axtell, The Invasion Within (see Ch.
1, n.
113), 68.
More generally, see Axtell, 43-127, and Cornelius J.
Jaenen, "Char- acteristics of French-Amerindian Contact in New France," in Stanley H.
Palmer and Dennis Reinharz, ed.
, Essays on the History of North American Discovery and Exploration (College Station, Tex.
, 1988), 79-101.
91. On the influence of the Jesuit Relations in particular, see Duchet, 76.
92. Thomas, Jumonville, 8.
93. Ibid. , 44.
94. Lesuire, 61-62.
95. See the discussion in Duchet, 230-79. See also William B. Cohen, The French Encounter with Africans: White Reponses to Blacks, 1530-1880 (Bloomington, 1980), 80.
96. Buirette de Belloy, Le sie`ge de Calais (see Ch. 1, n. 104), 32. See also, for exam- ple, Audibert, "Poe? me," 47; Basset de la Marelle, La diffe? rence (see Ch. 2, n. 41), 41; Lefebvre de Beauvray, Adresse, 9.
97. Lesuire, Les sauvages de l'Europe, 7.
98. Lefebvre de Beauvray, Adresse, 8.
99. Claude-Rigobert Lefebvre de Beauvray, Le monde pacifie? , poe? me (Paris,
1763), 6.
100. See Gilbert Chinard, George Washington as the French Knew Him (Princeton,
1940), 29. Chinard notes that during the War of American Independence, the French seem not to have drawn the connection between the young and mid- dle-aged Washington. This was possibly as the result of the earlier confusion over Washington's name ("Washington / Wemcheston") and the failure of most French publicists--including Thomas--to use the name at all.
101. Quoted in Grieder, 108.
Notes to Pages 98-100
102. For a summary of this literature see Acomb, Anglophobia, 69-88. Lefebvre's work, a partial rewriting of his earlier Adresse, was published as Claude- Rigobert Lefebvre de Beauvray, "Fragments d'un opuscule en vers, intitule? Hommages ou souhaits patriotiques a` la France, par un citoyen," in Journal encyclope? dique, 1779, V, 105-9.
103. Labourdette, Vergennes (see Intro. , n. 70), 205; see also Edouard Dziembow- ski, "Traduction et propagande: Convergences franco-britanniques de la cul- ture politique a` la fin du dix-huitie`me sie`cle," in K. de Queiros Mattoso, ed. , L'Angleterre et le monde, XVIII-XXe` sie`cle (Paris, 1999), 81-111.
104. Labourdette, 206-7. See for example the coverage in Annonces, affiches et avis divers . . . 156 (1782), 1317-18; 157 (1782), 1326.
105. See Albert Mathiez, La Re? volution et les e? trangers: Cosmopolitisme et de? fense nationale (Paris, 1918), passim; Wahnich, L'impossible citoyen, 163-85.
106. Quoted in Mathiez, La Re? volution et les e? trangers, 56, and Georges Fournier, "Images du Midi dans l'ide? ologie re? volutionnaire," in Amiras: Repe`res occitans, 15-16 (1987), 85.
107. On the shift, see Wahnich, L'impossible citoyen, 243-327.
108. Robespierre, in Alphonse Aulard, La socie? te? des Jacobins: Recueil de documents
pour l'histoire du club des Jacobins de Paris (Paris, 1889-95), V, 634.
109. Wahnich, 301-25, quotation from 305, 323.
110. Bare`re, Rapport, 13.
111. Sophie Wahnich suggests that the shift in French sentiments towards England
derived above all from the Jacobins' belief that in England, unlike in the other enemy nations, the people were sovereign, and thus responsible for their gov- ernments' actions. While this belief certainly helped shape revolutionary dis- course on the subject, Wahnich overestimates its importance. The polemicists of the Seven Years' War employed similar rhetoric against the British without
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Notes to Pages 100-104
? 112.
113. 114. 115.
Notes to Pages 100-104
116.
117.
118. 119. 120.
121. 122.
123. 124. 125.
126.
ever invoking English national sovereignty. The willingness to make pejora- tive characterizations of the English as a people had far more to do with the proximity and perceived similarity between the two nations. See Wahnich, L'impossible citoyen, 281-327.
See the material quoted extensively in Wahnich, 252-80, 318-27. Wahnich's book, which draws heavily on the techniques of linguistic analysis devised by Jacques Guilhaumou, rarely strays beyond the legislative records of the revo- lutionary assemblies (the Archives parlementaires) for source material. Quoted in Wahnich, 323, 326; Hampson, Perfidy, 150.
Bare`re, Rapport sur les crimes de l'Angleterre, 11, 12, 18.
Archives du Ministe`re des Affaires E? trange`res, Me? moires et Documents: France, 651, fol. 239. I am grateful to Professor Thomas Kaiser, of the Univer- sity of Arkansas, to whom I owe this citation, and who cited it in his paper "From the 'Austrian Committee' to the 'Foreign Plot': Marie-Antoinette, Austrophobia, and the Terror," Society for French Historical Studies, Scottsdale, March 2000.
Robespierre, in codicil to Bare`re, Rapport, 29. For examples of Vende? ens de- scribed as barbarians and foreigners, see for instance Rivoire, Le patriotisme (see Ch. 1, n. 40), 91.
De la Chapelle, Lettres d'un Suisse . . . vingtie`me lettre, (second pagination) S3r.
Quoted in Labourdette, 207.
See esp. Pallier, Recherches sur l'imprimerie a` Paris.
[Antoine Arnaud], Coppie de l'anti-espagnol, faict a` Paris (Paris, 1590), 12. In general, see Yardeni, La conscience nationale (see Intro. , n. 12), 270-77, also Mack P. Holt, "Burgundians into Frenchmen: Catholic Identity in Sixteenth- Century Burgundy," in Michael Wolfe, ed. , Changing Identities in Early Mod- ern France (Durham, 1997), 345-70.
Pagden, Lords of All the World, 24; Duchet, 210-11.
See Arthur Hertzberg, The French Enlightenment and the Jews (New York, 1968), 248-313. Bare`re is quoted in Wahnich, 318.
Elie Fre? ron, quoted in Dziembowski, Un nouveau patriotisme, 84.
This will be demonstrated in Chapter 4. And see above, note 7.
Which he actually spoke in Provenc? al: "Aquo es e? gaou, mori per la libertat. " See Patrice Higonnet, "The Politics of Linguistic Terrorism and Grammatical Hegemony During the French Revolution," Social History, V/1 (1980), 57. See for instance Pierre H. Boulle, "In Defense of Slavery: Eighteenth-Century Opposition to Abolition and the Origins of a Racist Ideology in France," in Frederick Krantz, ed. , History from Below: Studies in Popular Protest and Pop- ular Ideology in Honour of George Rude? (Montreal, 1985), 221-41; Laurent Versini, "Hommes des lumie`res et hommes de couleur," in Jean-Claude
Notes to Pages 104-109 259
? Carpanin Marimoutou and Jean-Michel Racault, eds. , Metissages, I (1992), 25-34; Be? atrice Didier, "Le me? tissage de l'Encyclope? die a` la Re? volution: De l'anthropologie a` la politique," in ibid. , 13-24; Ivan Hannaford, Race: The History of an Idea in the West (Washington, 1996). Earlier literature on the same theme includes Duchet, Anthropologie et histoire, and Richard H. Popkin, "The Philosophical Basis of Eighteenth-Century Racism," in Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, III (1973), 245-62. See also Vyverberg, Human Nature. As intellectual background for the shift, the authors cite the weaken- ing of Christian theology and its insistence on the common descent of the human race from Adam ("monogenesis"), and the increasing influence of the biological sciences with their penchant for classification and ranking.
127. See on this point Hannaford, Race, 235-76.
128. On the meanings of "race," see Boulle, "In Defense of Slavery," 222.
129. Pagden, "The 'Defence of Civilization'" (see Ch. 1, n. 14), 40-44.
4. National Memory and the Canon
1. Antoine-Le? onard Thomas, Essai sur les e? loges (Paris, 1829), 40-41.
2. Bonnet, Naissance du Panthe? on (see Intro. , n. 43). My differences with Bon- net's interpretation will become clear in the course of this chapter. In general on the phenomenon, see also Papenheim's important study, Erinnerung und Unsterblichkeit (see Intro. , n. 43), which Bonnet does not cite. Notes to Pages 104-109
3. Andre? Thevet, Les vrais pourtraits et vies des hommes illustres (Paris, 1584; repr. Delmar, NY, 1973). See also, for instance, Jean-Jacques Boissard, Icones uirorvm illvstirvm, doctrina & eruditione praestantium contines (Frankfurt,
1598).
4. Arlette Jouanna, L'ide? e de race en France au XVIe`me sie`cle (1498-1614), 3 vols.
(Paris, 1976), I, 25.
5. Quoted in Peter Gay, The Enlightenment: An Interpretation, 2 vols. (New York,
1966), I, 47. See also Martha Waling Howard, The Influence of Plutarch in the
Major European Literatures of the Eighteenth Century (Chapel Hill, 1970).
6. Margaret MacGowan, "Le phe? nome`ne de la galerie des portraits des illustres," in Roland Mousnier and Jean Mesnard, eds. , L'a^ge d'or du me? ce? nat (1598-
1661) (Paris, 1985), 411-22, quote from 412.
7.
Gabriel Michel de la Rochemaillet, Pourtraictz de plvsievrs hommes illvstres qvi
ont flory en France depvis l'an 1500 ivsques a` present (Paris, 1600) printed as a broadside (Bibliothe`que Nationale, Cabinet des Estampes, Hennin 1200/ G151576). Reprinted as La vie des graves et illustres personnages qui ont diuersement excellee en ce Royaume, sous les re`gnes de Louys XII, Franc? ois I, Henry II, Franc? ois II, Charles IX, Henry III & Henry IIII heureusement regnant (Rouen, 1609). Rev. ed. : C. Malingre, Histoire chronologique de plusieurs
260
Notes to Pages 109-112
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Notes to Pages 109-112
11. 12.
13. 14.
15.
8.
grands capitaines, princes, seigneurs, magistrats, officiers de la couronne & autres hommes illustres qui ont paru en France depuis cent soixante & quinze ans iusques a` present (Paris, 1617); Scaevole de Sainte-Marthe, Gallorum doctrina illustrium, qui nostra patrumque memoria floruerunt, elogia (Paris, 1602).
See Dowley, "D'Angiviller's Grands Hommes"; Silvestre de Sacy, Le comte d'Angiviller; Locquin, La peinture d'histoire (see Intro. n. 48), 41-69; Marc Furcy-Raynaud, ed. , "Correspondance de M. d'Angiviller avec Pierre," 2 vols. , Nouvelles archives de l'art franc? ais, 3e se? rie, vols. XXI-XXII (1905-6); Andrew McClellan, Inventing the Louvre: Art, Politics and the Origins of the Modern Museum in Eighteenth-Century Paris (Berkeley, 1994), 82-90; McClellan, "D'Angiviller's 'Great Men'" (see Intro. , n. 48); Thomas Crow, Painters and Public Life in Eighteenth-Century Paris (New Haven, 1985), 191-7. Crow points out that at the end of the 1770s, d'Angiviller started to put renewed emphasis on classical antiquity in his painting program. Still, French history paintings continued to appear, as did the sculpture program.
See especially Brenner, L'histoire nationale (see Ch. 2, n. 61); Boe? s, La lanterne magique (see Intro. , n. 44).
These projects are discussed in Mona Ozouf, "Le Panthe? on: L'e? cole normale des morts," in Nora, ed. , Les lieux de me? moire (see Intro. , n. 33), pt. I, 142-44; Papenheim, Erinnerung, 286-7; Bonnet, Naissance, 130-32; John McMan- ners, Death and the Enlightenment: Changing Attitudes to Death in Eighteenth- Century France (Oxford, 1985), 330-33; Dominique Poulot, Muse? e, nation, patrimoine, 1789-1815 (Paris, 1997), esp. 53, 122; McClellan, Inventing, 83. On Louis XV's approval, see Papenheim, Erinnerung, 181.
See Bonnet, Naissance du Panthe? on, 55-66. In general, on the eulogy, see also Bonnet's pioneering article "Naissance du Panthe? on," Poe? tique 33 (1978). See Daniel Roche, Le sie`cle des lumie`res en province: Acade? mies et acade? miciens provinciaux, 1680-1789, 2 vols. (Paris, 1978), I, 344.
Bonnet, Naissance du Panthe? on, 111; Bonnet, "Naissance du Panthe? on," 47. Bonnet, Naissance du Panthe? on, 67-82. On Thomas's friendship with d'Angiviller, see McClellan, Inventing, 83-9.
Schama, Citizens (see Ch. 2, n. 60), 32. Schama suggests that the volume "broadened its criteria to include events and figures from civilian life" and soldiers who had risen from the ranks (33). Yet these aspects of the book also had long-standing precedents in the series. In fact, as will be seen below, in most respect the volume represented a step backwards to a noble, chivalric ideal. Schama is unaware that the work, published by Pierre Blin, is by the en- graver Sergent. For attribution, see Colin and Charlotte Franklin, A Catalogue of Early Colour Printing, From Chiaroscuro to Aquatint (Oxford, 1977), 53. Schama does, however, recognize the importance of the printed collective bi-
ography. Bonnet does not mention the volumes; Papenheim, in Erinnerung,
127, alludes to them briefly.
16. On these galleries, see MacGowan, "Le phe? nome`ne de la galerie des portraits
des illustres"; Ge? rard Sabatier, "Politique, histoire et mythologie: La galerie en France et en Italie pendant la premiere moitie? du 17e sie`cle," in Jean Serroy, ed. , La France et l'Italie au temps de Mazarin (Grenoble, 1986), pp. 283-301; and especially Christian Jouhaud, "L'e? nergie du pouvoir: le cas de Richelieu (1631-1642)," in Louis Cullen and Louis Bergeron (eds. ), Culture et pratiques politiques en France et en Irlande, XVIe`-XVIIIe` sie`cle (Paris, 1991), 83-99.
17. See MacGowan, 416, also Griguette, Eloges des hommes illustres.
18. Subsequent references to the works by Griguette, Vulson, Perrault, Morvan, Du Castre d'Auvigny, Gautier Dagoty, Restout, Turpin, Sergent, and Manuel, and to the anonymous works entitled Eloges, Me? moires, Ne? crologe, Tablettes,
and Faits et actions, refer to the books listed in Table 3, page 113.
19. Perrault, Les hommes illustres, unpaginated preface.
20. See Darnton, Literary Underground (see Ch. 2, n. 21), 1-40.
21. On Manuel, see Darnton, Literary Underground, 59-61, and Louis Michaud,
ed. , Biographie universelle ancienne et moderne (Paris, 1852), sv. Manuel; on Aublet de Maubuy, see Robert Darnton "Two Paths through the Social His- tory of Ideas," in Haydn Mason, ed. , The Darnton Debate: Books and Revolu- tion in the Eighteenth Century, Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century 359 (1998), 262.
22. Locquin, 183.
Notes to Pages 112-117
23. For instance, Dominique-Joseph Garat's prize-winning Eloge de Suger (Paris, 1779) uses only facts found in, and often follows the structure of, the life of Suger in d'Auvigny's Les vies des hommes illustres, I, 1-71.
24. The work in question is Du Castre D'Auvigny, Perau and Turpin, Les vies. See above all Du Castre's fascinating prospectus, Avis pour l'histoire des hommes illustres de la France (Paris, 1741). Turpin's La France illustre and Restout's Gallerie franc? oise were also sold by subscription.
25. Du Castre d'Auvigny, Les vies, I, v.
26. Proce`s-verbaux de l'Acade? mie royale de Peinture et de Sculpture, 1684-1793
(Paris, 1888), VIII, 178; [Manson] (see Intro. , n. 50), 8-9.
27. Maille Dussausoy, Le citoyen de? sinteresse? , ou diverses ide? es patriotiques, con-
cernant quelques e? tablissemens et embellissemens utils a` la ville de Paris, 2 vols.
(Paris, 1767), 141.
28. Charles-Ire? ne? e Castel de Saint-Pierre, Discours sur les diffe? rences du grand
homme et de l'homme illustre, published in Histoire d'Epaminondas pour servir de suite aux hommes illustres de Plutarque (Paris, 1739), 36, quoted in Bonnet, Naissance du Panthe? on, 34. See also Ozouf's discussion of the distinciton in "Le Panthe? on," 143-4.
Notes to Pages 112-117 261
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Notes to Pages 117-120
? 29. 30.
31.
32. 33.
34.
Notes to Pages 117-120
35.
Manuel, I, v.
Dacier, ed. , Les vies des hommes illustres de Plutarque, 10 vols. (Paris, 1778), I, 10.
Manuel, I, xv. See also Bernardin de Saint-Pierre's Etudes sur la nature (Paris, 1784), which proposes an "Elyse? e" of great men, for similar remarks; also the discussion in Ozouf, "Le Panthe? on," 144. On court trials, see Maza, Private Lives and Public Affairs (see Ch. 2, n. 18).
Particularly in Bonnet, Naissance du Panthe? on and Ozouf, "Le Panthe? on. " See, for instance, Turpin, La France illustre; Turpin, Annales pittoresques; [Sergent], Portraits; Faits et actions he? roi? ques des grands hommes.
[Sergent], no. 14 (d'Aguesseau); for nos. 60 (Bayard) and 73 (Jeanne d'Arc), cf. Heince, Bignon and Vulson (1668 edition with red type on title page), 80, 134. Sergent seems to have borrowed most of his engravings from familiar sources, for instance Duguesclin's death (no. 77) is borrowed from the Brenet's 1776 painting "Trait de respect pour la vertu: Honneurs rendus au Conne? table du Guesclin par la ville de Randon," commissioned by d'Angiviller. Louis XVI (no. 1) copies a state portrait by Duplessis.
Much of this material is available in the Bibliothe`que Nationale de France under the co^te Ln20. On eighteenth-century regionalism, see especially Revel, "La re? gion" (see Ch. 2, n. 105); Catherine Bertho, "L'invention de la Bretagne: Gene`se social d'un ste? re? otype," Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales, 35 (1980), 45-62; Mona Ozouf, "La Re? volution franc? aise et la perception de l'espace national: fe? de? rations, fe? de? ralisme et ste? re? otypes re? gionaux," in her L'e? cole de la France: Essais sur la Re? volution, l'utopie et l'enseignement (Paris, 1984), 27-54; Michel Vovelle, "La de? couverte en Provence, ou les primitifs de l'ethnographie provenc? ale," in De la cave au grenier: Un itine? raire en Provence au XVIIIe` sie`cle (Que? bec, 1980). On nineteenth-century regionalism, see par- ticularly Anne-Marie Thiesse, Ils apprenaient la France: L'exaltation des re? gions dans le discours patriotique (Paris, 1997); Ste? phane Gerson, "Parisian Litterateurs, Provincial Journeys and the Construction of National Unity in Post-revolutionary France," Past and Present 151 (1996), 141-73.
See Morrissey's excellent discussion in L'empereur a` la barbe fleurie (see Ch. 1, n. 11), 300-303.
Baumier, Homage a` la patrie (Brussels, 1782), 61, 91.
Carl L. Becker, The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth-Century Philosophers (New Haven, 1932), 31. This is in part the approach taken by Bonnet in his initial article "Naissance du Panthe? on," and also by Ozouf in "Le Panthe? on. " The quote is from Bonnet, "Naissance du Panthe? on," 47.
See Ozouf, La fe^te re?
91. On the influence of the Jesuit Relations in particular, see Duchet, 76.
92. Thomas, Jumonville, 8.
93. Ibid. , 44.
94. Lesuire, 61-62.
95. See the discussion in Duchet, 230-79. See also William B. Cohen, The French Encounter with Africans: White Reponses to Blacks, 1530-1880 (Bloomington, 1980), 80.
96. Buirette de Belloy, Le sie`ge de Calais (see Ch. 1, n. 104), 32. See also, for exam- ple, Audibert, "Poe? me," 47; Basset de la Marelle, La diffe? rence (see Ch. 2, n. 41), 41; Lefebvre de Beauvray, Adresse, 9.
97. Lesuire, Les sauvages de l'Europe, 7.
98. Lefebvre de Beauvray, Adresse, 8.
99. Claude-Rigobert Lefebvre de Beauvray, Le monde pacifie? , poe? me (Paris,
1763), 6.
100. See Gilbert Chinard, George Washington as the French Knew Him (Princeton,
1940), 29. Chinard notes that during the War of American Independence, the French seem not to have drawn the connection between the young and mid- dle-aged Washington. This was possibly as the result of the earlier confusion over Washington's name ("Washington / Wemcheston") and the failure of most French publicists--including Thomas--to use the name at all.
101. Quoted in Grieder, 108.
Notes to Pages 98-100
102. For a summary of this literature see Acomb, Anglophobia, 69-88. Lefebvre's work, a partial rewriting of his earlier Adresse, was published as Claude- Rigobert Lefebvre de Beauvray, "Fragments d'un opuscule en vers, intitule? Hommages ou souhaits patriotiques a` la France, par un citoyen," in Journal encyclope? dique, 1779, V, 105-9.
103. Labourdette, Vergennes (see Intro. , n. 70), 205; see also Edouard Dziembow- ski, "Traduction et propagande: Convergences franco-britanniques de la cul- ture politique a` la fin du dix-huitie`me sie`cle," in K. de Queiros Mattoso, ed. , L'Angleterre et le monde, XVIII-XXe` sie`cle (Paris, 1999), 81-111.
104. Labourdette, 206-7. See for example the coverage in Annonces, affiches et avis divers . . . 156 (1782), 1317-18; 157 (1782), 1326.
105. See Albert Mathiez, La Re? volution et les e? trangers: Cosmopolitisme et de? fense nationale (Paris, 1918), passim; Wahnich, L'impossible citoyen, 163-85.
106. Quoted in Mathiez, La Re? volution et les e? trangers, 56, and Georges Fournier, "Images du Midi dans l'ide? ologie re? volutionnaire," in Amiras: Repe`res occitans, 15-16 (1987), 85.
107. On the shift, see Wahnich, L'impossible citoyen, 243-327.
108. Robespierre, in Alphonse Aulard, La socie? te? des Jacobins: Recueil de documents
pour l'histoire du club des Jacobins de Paris (Paris, 1889-95), V, 634.
109. Wahnich, 301-25, quotation from 305, 323.
110. Bare`re, Rapport, 13.
111. Sophie Wahnich suggests that the shift in French sentiments towards England
derived above all from the Jacobins' belief that in England, unlike in the other enemy nations, the people were sovereign, and thus responsible for their gov- ernments' actions. While this belief certainly helped shape revolutionary dis- course on the subject, Wahnich overestimates its importance. The polemicists of the Seven Years' War employed similar rhetoric against the British without
Notes to Pages 98-100 257
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Notes to Pages 100-104
? 112.
113. 114. 115.
Notes to Pages 100-104
116.
117.
118. 119. 120.
121. 122.
123. 124. 125.
126.
ever invoking English national sovereignty. The willingness to make pejora- tive characterizations of the English as a people had far more to do with the proximity and perceived similarity between the two nations. See Wahnich, L'impossible citoyen, 281-327.
See the material quoted extensively in Wahnich, 252-80, 318-27. Wahnich's book, which draws heavily on the techniques of linguistic analysis devised by Jacques Guilhaumou, rarely strays beyond the legislative records of the revo- lutionary assemblies (the Archives parlementaires) for source material. Quoted in Wahnich, 323, 326; Hampson, Perfidy, 150.
Bare`re, Rapport sur les crimes de l'Angleterre, 11, 12, 18.
Archives du Ministe`re des Affaires E? trange`res, Me? moires et Documents: France, 651, fol. 239. I am grateful to Professor Thomas Kaiser, of the Univer- sity of Arkansas, to whom I owe this citation, and who cited it in his paper "From the 'Austrian Committee' to the 'Foreign Plot': Marie-Antoinette, Austrophobia, and the Terror," Society for French Historical Studies, Scottsdale, March 2000.
Robespierre, in codicil to Bare`re, Rapport, 29. For examples of Vende? ens de- scribed as barbarians and foreigners, see for instance Rivoire, Le patriotisme (see Ch. 1, n. 40), 91.
De la Chapelle, Lettres d'un Suisse . . . vingtie`me lettre, (second pagination) S3r.
Quoted in Labourdette, 207.
See esp. Pallier, Recherches sur l'imprimerie a` Paris.
[Antoine Arnaud], Coppie de l'anti-espagnol, faict a` Paris (Paris, 1590), 12. In general, see Yardeni, La conscience nationale (see Intro. , n. 12), 270-77, also Mack P. Holt, "Burgundians into Frenchmen: Catholic Identity in Sixteenth- Century Burgundy," in Michael Wolfe, ed. , Changing Identities in Early Mod- ern France (Durham, 1997), 345-70.
Pagden, Lords of All the World, 24; Duchet, 210-11.
See Arthur Hertzberg, The French Enlightenment and the Jews (New York, 1968), 248-313. Bare`re is quoted in Wahnich, 318.
Elie Fre? ron, quoted in Dziembowski, Un nouveau patriotisme, 84.
This will be demonstrated in Chapter 4. And see above, note 7.
Which he actually spoke in Provenc? al: "Aquo es e? gaou, mori per la libertat. " See Patrice Higonnet, "The Politics of Linguistic Terrorism and Grammatical Hegemony During the French Revolution," Social History, V/1 (1980), 57. See for instance Pierre H. Boulle, "In Defense of Slavery: Eighteenth-Century Opposition to Abolition and the Origins of a Racist Ideology in France," in Frederick Krantz, ed. , History from Below: Studies in Popular Protest and Pop- ular Ideology in Honour of George Rude? (Montreal, 1985), 221-41; Laurent Versini, "Hommes des lumie`res et hommes de couleur," in Jean-Claude
Notes to Pages 104-109 259
? Carpanin Marimoutou and Jean-Michel Racault, eds. , Metissages, I (1992), 25-34; Be? atrice Didier, "Le me? tissage de l'Encyclope? die a` la Re? volution: De l'anthropologie a` la politique," in ibid. , 13-24; Ivan Hannaford, Race: The History of an Idea in the West (Washington, 1996). Earlier literature on the same theme includes Duchet, Anthropologie et histoire, and Richard H. Popkin, "The Philosophical Basis of Eighteenth-Century Racism," in Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, III (1973), 245-62. See also Vyverberg, Human Nature. As intellectual background for the shift, the authors cite the weaken- ing of Christian theology and its insistence on the common descent of the human race from Adam ("monogenesis"), and the increasing influence of the biological sciences with their penchant for classification and ranking.
127. See on this point Hannaford, Race, 235-76.
128. On the meanings of "race," see Boulle, "In Defense of Slavery," 222.
129. Pagden, "The 'Defence of Civilization'" (see Ch. 1, n. 14), 40-44.
4. National Memory and the Canon
1. Antoine-Le? onard Thomas, Essai sur les e? loges (Paris, 1829), 40-41.
2. Bonnet, Naissance du Panthe? on (see Intro. , n. 43). My differences with Bon- net's interpretation will become clear in the course of this chapter. In general on the phenomenon, see also Papenheim's important study, Erinnerung und Unsterblichkeit (see Intro. , n. 43), which Bonnet does not cite. Notes to Pages 104-109
3. Andre? Thevet, Les vrais pourtraits et vies des hommes illustres (Paris, 1584; repr. Delmar, NY, 1973). See also, for instance, Jean-Jacques Boissard, Icones uirorvm illvstirvm, doctrina & eruditione praestantium contines (Frankfurt,
1598).
4. Arlette Jouanna, L'ide? e de race en France au XVIe`me sie`cle (1498-1614), 3 vols.
(Paris, 1976), I, 25.
5. Quoted in Peter Gay, The Enlightenment: An Interpretation, 2 vols. (New York,
1966), I, 47. See also Martha Waling Howard, The Influence of Plutarch in the
Major European Literatures of the Eighteenth Century (Chapel Hill, 1970).
6. Margaret MacGowan, "Le phe? nome`ne de la galerie des portraits des illustres," in Roland Mousnier and Jean Mesnard, eds. , L'a^ge d'or du me? ce? nat (1598-
1661) (Paris, 1985), 411-22, quote from 412.
7.
Gabriel Michel de la Rochemaillet, Pourtraictz de plvsievrs hommes illvstres qvi
ont flory en France depvis l'an 1500 ivsques a` present (Paris, 1600) printed as a broadside (Bibliothe`que Nationale, Cabinet des Estampes, Hennin 1200/ G151576). Reprinted as La vie des graves et illustres personnages qui ont diuersement excellee en ce Royaume, sous les re`gnes de Louys XII, Franc? ois I, Henry II, Franc? ois II, Charles IX, Henry III & Henry IIII heureusement regnant (Rouen, 1609). Rev. ed. : C. Malingre, Histoire chronologique de plusieurs
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? 9. 10.
Notes to Pages 109-112
11. 12.
13. 14.
15.
8.
grands capitaines, princes, seigneurs, magistrats, officiers de la couronne & autres hommes illustres qui ont paru en France depuis cent soixante & quinze ans iusques a` present (Paris, 1617); Scaevole de Sainte-Marthe, Gallorum doctrina illustrium, qui nostra patrumque memoria floruerunt, elogia (Paris, 1602).
See Dowley, "D'Angiviller's Grands Hommes"; Silvestre de Sacy, Le comte d'Angiviller; Locquin, La peinture d'histoire (see Intro. n. 48), 41-69; Marc Furcy-Raynaud, ed. , "Correspondance de M. d'Angiviller avec Pierre," 2 vols. , Nouvelles archives de l'art franc? ais, 3e se? rie, vols. XXI-XXII (1905-6); Andrew McClellan, Inventing the Louvre: Art, Politics and the Origins of the Modern Museum in Eighteenth-Century Paris (Berkeley, 1994), 82-90; McClellan, "D'Angiviller's 'Great Men'" (see Intro. , n. 48); Thomas Crow, Painters and Public Life in Eighteenth-Century Paris (New Haven, 1985), 191-7. Crow points out that at the end of the 1770s, d'Angiviller started to put renewed emphasis on classical antiquity in his painting program. Still, French history paintings continued to appear, as did the sculpture program.
See especially Brenner, L'histoire nationale (see Ch. 2, n. 61); Boe? s, La lanterne magique (see Intro. , n. 44).
These projects are discussed in Mona Ozouf, "Le Panthe? on: L'e? cole normale des morts," in Nora, ed. , Les lieux de me? moire (see Intro. , n. 33), pt. I, 142-44; Papenheim, Erinnerung, 286-7; Bonnet, Naissance, 130-32; John McMan- ners, Death and the Enlightenment: Changing Attitudes to Death in Eighteenth- Century France (Oxford, 1985), 330-33; Dominique Poulot, Muse? e, nation, patrimoine, 1789-1815 (Paris, 1997), esp. 53, 122; McClellan, Inventing, 83. On Louis XV's approval, see Papenheim, Erinnerung, 181.
See Bonnet, Naissance du Panthe? on, 55-66. In general, on the eulogy, see also Bonnet's pioneering article "Naissance du Panthe? on," Poe? tique 33 (1978). See Daniel Roche, Le sie`cle des lumie`res en province: Acade? mies et acade? miciens provinciaux, 1680-1789, 2 vols. (Paris, 1978), I, 344.
Bonnet, Naissance du Panthe? on, 111; Bonnet, "Naissance du Panthe? on," 47. Bonnet, Naissance du Panthe? on, 67-82. On Thomas's friendship with d'Angiviller, see McClellan, Inventing, 83-9.
Schama, Citizens (see Ch. 2, n. 60), 32. Schama suggests that the volume "broadened its criteria to include events and figures from civilian life" and soldiers who had risen from the ranks (33). Yet these aspects of the book also had long-standing precedents in the series. In fact, as will be seen below, in most respect the volume represented a step backwards to a noble, chivalric ideal. Schama is unaware that the work, published by Pierre Blin, is by the en- graver Sergent. For attribution, see Colin and Charlotte Franklin, A Catalogue of Early Colour Printing, From Chiaroscuro to Aquatint (Oxford, 1977), 53. Schama does, however, recognize the importance of the printed collective bi-
ography. Bonnet does not mention the volumes; Papenheim, in Erinnerung,
127, alludes to them briefly.
16. On these galleries, see MacGowan, "Le phe? nome`ne de la galerie des portraits
des illustres"; Ge? rard Sabatier, "Politique, histoire et mythologie: La galerie en France et en Italie pendant la premiere moitie? du 17e sie`cle," in Jean Serroy, ed. , La France et l'Italie au temps de Mazarin (Grenoble, 1986), pp. 283-301; and especially Christian Jouhaud, "L'e? nergie du pouvoir: le cas de Richelieu (1631-1642)," in Louis Cullen and Louis Bergeron (eds. ), Culture et pratiques politiques en France et en Irlande, XVIe`-XVIIIe` sie`cle (Paris, 1991), 83-99.
17. See MacGowan, 416, also Griguette, Eloges des hommes illustres.
18. Subsequent references to the works by Griguette, Vulson, Perrault, Morvan, Du Castre d'Auvigny, Gautier Dagoty, Restout, Turpin, Sergent, and Manuel, and to the anonymous works entitled Eloges, Me? moires, Ne? crologe, Tablettes,
and Faits et actions, refer to the books listed in Table 3, page 113.
19. Perrault, Les hommes illustres, unpaginated preface.
20. See Darnton, Literary Underground (see Ch. 2, n. 21), 1-40.
21. On Manuel, see Darnton, Literary Underground, 59-61, and Louis Michaud,
ed. , Biographie universelle ancienne et moderne (Paris, 1852), sv. Manuel; on Aublet de Maubuy, see Robert Darnton "Two Paths through the Social His- tory of Ideas," in Haydn Mason, ed. , The Darnton Debate: Books and Revolu- tion in the Eighteenth Century, Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century 359 (1998), 262.
22. Locquin, 183.
Notes to Pages 112-117
23. For instance, Dominique-Joseph Garat's prize-winning Eloge de Suger (Paris, 1779) uses only facts found in, and often follows the structure of, the life of Suger in d'Auvigny's Les vies des hommes illustres, I, 1-71.
24. The work in question is Du Castre D'Auvigny, Perau and Turpin, Les vies. See above all Du Castre's fascinating prospectus, Avis pour l'histoire des hommes illustres de la France (Paris, 1741). Turpin's La France illustre and Restout's Gallerie franc? oise were also sold by subscription.
25. Du Castre d'Auvigny, Les vies, I, v.
26. Proce`s-verbaux de l'Acade? mie royale de Peinture et de Sculpture, 1684-1793
(Paris, 1888), VIII, 178; [Manson] (see Intro. , n. 50), 8-9.
27. Maille Dussausoy, Le citoyen de? sinteresse? , ou diverses ide? es patriotiques, con-
cernant quelques e? tablissemens et embellissemens utils a` la ville de Paris, 2 vols.
(Paris, 1767), 141.
28. Charles-Ire? ne? e Castel de Saint-Pierre, Discours sur les diffe? rences du grand
homme et de l'homme illustre, published in Histoire d'Epaminondas pour servir de suite aux hommes illustres de Plutarque (Paris, 1739), 36, quoted in Bonnet, Naissance du Panthe? on, 34. See also Ozouf's discussion of the distinciton in "Le Panthe? on," 143-4.
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31.
32. 33.
34.
Notes to Pages 117-120
35.
Manuel, I, v.
Dacier, ed. , Les vies des hommes illustres de Plutarque, 10 vols. (Paris, 1778), I, 10.
Manuel, I, xv. See also Bernardin de Saint-Pierre's Etudes sur la nature (Paris, 1784), which proposes an "Elyse? e" of great men, for similar remarks; also the discussion in Ozouf, "Le Panthe? on," 144. On court trials, see Maza, Private Lives and Public Affairs (see Ch. 2, n. 18).
Particularly in Bonnet, Naissance du Panthe? on and Ozouf, "Le Panthe? on. " See, for instance, Turpin, La France illustre; Turpin, Annales pittoresques; [Sergent], Portraits; Faits et actions he? roi? ques des grands hommes.
[Sergent], no. 14 (d'Aguesseau); for nos. 60 (Bayard) and 73 (Jeanne d'Arc), cf. Heince, Bignon and Vulson (1668 edition with red type on title page), 80, 134. Sergent seems to have borrowed most of his engravings from familiar sources, for instance Duguesclin's death (no. 77) is borrowed from the Brenet's 1776 painting "Trait de respect pour la vertu: Honneurs rendus au Conne? table du Guesclin par la ville de Randon," commissioned by d'Angiviller. Louis XVI (no. 1) copies a state portrait by Duplessis.
Much of this material is available in the Bibliothe`que Nationale de France under the co^te Ln20. On eighteenth-century regionalism, see especially Revel, "La re? gion" (see Ch. 2, n. 105); Catherine Bertho, "L'invention de la Bretagne: Gene`se social d'un ste? re? otype," Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales, 35 (1980), 45-62; Mona Ozouf, "La Re? volution franc? aise et la perception de l'espace national: fe? de? rations, fe? de? ralisme et ste? re? otypes re? gionaux," in her L'e? cole de la France: Essais sur la Re? volution, l'utopie et l'enseignement (Paris, 1984), 27-54; Michel Vovelle, "La de? couverte en Provence, ou les primitifs de l'ethnographie provenc? ale," in De la cave au grenier: Un itine? raire en Provence au XVIIIe` sie`cle (Que? bec, 1980). On nineteenth-century regionalism, see par- ticularly Anne-Marie Thiesse, Ils apprenaient la France: L'exaltation des re? gions dans le discours patriotique (Paris, 1997); Ste? phane Gerson, "Parisian Litterateurs, Provincial Journeys and the Construction of National Unity in Post-revolutionary France," Past and Present 151 (1996), 141-73.
See Morrissey's excellent discussion in L'empereur a` la barbe fleurie (see Ch. 1, n. 11), 300-303.
Baumier, Homage a` la patrie (Brussels, 1782), 61, 91.
Carl L. Becker, The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth-Century Philosophers (New Haven, 1932), 31. This is in part the approach taken by Bonnet in his initial article "Naissance du Panthe? on," and also by Ozouf in "Le Panthe? on. " The quote is from Bonnet, "Naissance du Panthe? on," 47.
See Ozouf, La fe^te re?
