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54.
55.
56.
57. 58. 59.
See Moreau, Mes souvenirs, I, 57-63.
Moreau, L'Observateur hollandois, ou deuxie`me lettre, 6.
Moreau, Mes souvenirs, I, 129; Jacob-Nicolas Moreau, Lettre sur la paix, a` M. le Comte de *** (Lyons, 1763).
These were the years of Moreau's famous anti-philosophe satire Nouveau me? moire pour servir a` l'histoire des Cacouacs (Amsterdam, 1757), of Charles Palissot's Les philosophes (Paris, 1760), and many other anti-philosophe works, not to mention a hardening of censorship of the philosophes themselves. On the connection with the war, see Dziembowski, Un nouveau patriotisme, 119-30.
Dziembowski, esp. 298-311. For perceptions of English turbulence see Thomas, Jumonville, 5; Conside? rations sur les diffe? rends, 7; Lesuire, passim. On the importance of these perceptions in French political culture, see Baker, In- venting the French Revolution (see Intro. , n. 17), 173-85.
"Projet patriotique," in Anne? e litte? raire, 1756, VI, 43-4.
These gifts are described in Barbier, Chronique de la Re? gence (see Ch. 1, n. 96), VII, 422-4. See also Dziembowski, Un nouveau patriotisme, 458-72.
Lettres patentes du roi, Par lesquelles le Roi, en ordonnant que sa Vaisselle sera porte? e a` l'Ho^tel des Monnoies de Paris, pour y e^tre convertie en Espe`ces, fixe le prix de celle qui y sera porte? e volontairement par les Particuliers (Versailles, 1759). In Bibliothe`que Nationale de France, F 21162, no. 111. Riley in The Seven Years' War, a study of French finances during the war, doesn't even mention these donations.
Barbier, VII, 199.
Bibliothe`que de la Socie? te? de Port-Royal, Fonds Le Paige, 543 (unpaginated), letter from Decourtoux (? ) to Le Paige. This volume of the Le Paige collection has considerable material on the "dons d'argenterie. " My thanks to Mita Choudhury for the reference.
Jean de la Chapelle, Lettres d'un Suisse, qui demeure en France, a` un Franc? ois, qui s'est retire? en Suisse, touchant l'e? stat pre? sent des affaires en Europe (n. p. , 1704). See also Klaits, Printed Propaganda, 113-70.
Klaits, 212-16; Lettre du Roy a Mr. le Marquis d'Antin du 12. Juin 1709 (Paris, 1709). The letter was written by Torcy. See also Andre? Corvisier, L'arme? e franc? aise de la fin du XVIIe` sie`cle au ministe`re de Choiseul: Le soldat, 2 vols. (Paris, 1964), I, 105.
Moreau, Mes souvenirs, II, 559; Charles-Pierre Colardeau, Le patriotisme, poe? me (Paris, 1762), 3; Le patriotisme, poe? me [anonymous 1767 poem, not by Colardeau; see Ch. 1, n. 86], 7.
De la Chapelle, Lettre d'un Suisse, "Quatrie`me lettre," E4v.
Lettre du Roy, 3.
See Etienne-Franc? ois, duc de Choiseul, Me? moire historique sur la ne? gociation
Notes to Pages 90-93 255
? de la France et de l'Angleterre depuis le 26 mars 1761 jusqu'au 20 septembre de
la me^me anne? e, avec les pie`ces justificatives (Paris, 1761).
60. "Projet patriotique," 42.
61. Thomas, Jumonville, xvi, 18.
62. [Moreau], L'Observateur hollandois, ou troisie`me lettre, 3, 4, 12.
63. [Moreau], L'Observateur hollandois, ou cinquie`me lettre . . . , 6-8.
64. See, for instance, Moreau's disquisition on patriotism in ibid. , 40-42, and the
discussion in Chapter 1 above.
65. Me? moires de Tre? voux (1756), II, 1750-1751.
66. [abbe? Le Blanc], Le patriote anglois, ou re? flexions sur les Hostilite? s que la France
reproche a` l'Angleterre (Geneva, 1756), ii. Le Blanc also wrote that "the hatred
of the name Frenchman only blinds the vile populace. "
67. Journal encyclope? dique, 1756, I, Jan. 15, 30-31.
68. This suppleness would continue. See for instance Sobry, Le mode franc? ois
(see Ch. 1, n. 63), 26-37. Sobry uses the word "nation" to describe England,
France, and Spain, but "peuple" to describe other groups of Europeans.
69. Denis Diderot, "Eloge de Richardson," in Oeuvres comple`tes (Paris, 1951),
1063. Notes to Pages 90-93
70. See, on this phenomenon, Grieder, Anglomania, and Acomb, Anglophobia (see Ch. 1, n. 96). Both draw heavily on Georges Ascoli, La Grande Bretagne
devant l'opinion franc? aise au 18e` sie`cle (Paris, 1930).
71. Quoted in Greenfeld, Nationalism (see Intro. , n. 21), 156. Among the more fa-
mous examples of tracts against Anglomania is Louis Fougeret de Montbron,
Pre? servatif (see Ch. 1, n. 96).
72. Quoted in Dziembowski, Un nouveau patriotisme, 184.
73. Among the voluminous literature on the idea of Europe, see esp. Rene?
Pomeau, L'Europe des lumie`res: Cosmopolitisme et unite? europe? enne au dix- huitie`me sie`cle (Paris, 1995 [1964]); Jean-Baptiste Duroselle, L'ide? e d'Europe dans l'histoire (Paris, 1965), 103-33; Derek Heater, The Idea of European Unity (New York, 1992), 61-90; Denis de Rougemont, The Idea of Europe, trans. Norbert Guterman (New York, 1966), 51-175. On precedents, see Denys Hay, Europe: The Emergence of an Idea (Edinburgh, 1957).
74. Voltaire, Fontenoy, "Discours pre? liminaire," unpaginated.
75. Journal encyclope? dique, 1760, VIII, pt. II, 104. The anonymous writer also commented that "the Orientals themselves recognize the Europeans' mental
superiority. "
76. Quoted in de Rougemont, 150.
77. Rousseau, Oeuvres comple`tes (see Intro. , n. 42), III, 960. Cf. Emile (see Ch. 2,
n. 48), 593: "the original character of peoples is steadily being erased . . . As the races mix and the peoples blend, we see those national differences which once struck one at first glance, little by little disappearing. "
256 Notes to Pages 94-98
? 78. One exception: The Lettre d'un jeune homme (see Intro. , n. 70), published in the War of American Independence, said that the English custom of having women retire early from the dinner table was worthy of "Africans or Orientals" (18).
79. Duchet, 32, and more generally, 25-136; Gilbert Chinard, L'Ame? rique et le re^ve exotique dans la litte? rature franc? aise au XVIIe` et au XVIIIe` sie`cles (Paris, 1913); Geoffroy Atkinson, Les relations de voyages du XVIIe` sie`cle et l'e? volution des ide? es: Contribution a` l'e? tude de la formation de l'esprit du XVIIIe` sie`cle (Paris, 1927).
80. See also Karen Ordahl Kupperman, America in European Consciousness, 1493-1750 (Chapel Hill, 1995), 1-24.
81. See Colley, Britons, 11-54.
82. For a brief summary of these works, see Henry Vyverberg, Human Nature,
Cultural Diversity, and the French Enlightenment (New York, 1989), esp. 66-
71. The arguments about temperate climate go back to Aristotle.
83. Rivarol, L'universalite? de la langue franc? aise (Paris, 1991), 25.
84. D'Espiard, L'esprit des nations, 1753 Hague ed. (see Intro. , n. 38), II, 25.
NotestoPages894-985. Ibid. ,I,145;II,126.
86. [Thomas-Jean Pichon], La physique de l'histoire, ou Conside? rations ge? ne? rales
sur les Principes e? le? mentaires du temperament et du Caracte`re naturel des
Peuples (The Hague, 1765), 262-3.
87. Cited in Kohn, Prelude to Nation States (see Ch. 2, n. 15), 15.
88.
On French notions of the translatio studii, spiritual counterpart to the
translatio imperii, see Beaune, Naissance (see Intro. , n. 12), 405-9.
89. The most recent study of the "civilizing mission," Alice Conklin's A Mission to Civilize: The Republican Idea of Empire in French West Africa, 1895-1930 (Stanford, 1997), acknowledges its Enlightenment origins without, however,
discussing them in depth.
90. F. A. Isambert et al. , Recueil des anciennes lois franc? aises, 18 vols. (Paris, 1821-
33), XVI, 423. 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
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.