Le calvinisme est-il républicain ?

Abstract

Taking a text by Charles de Villers (1802) as a starting point, this paper revisits the classical debates on the connection or kinship between a particular religion and an economic or political system. Montesquieu, Tocqueville and Weber are summoned in order to endeavour to understand the modes of transfer from Calvinism to the Republic and sometimes also, conversely, from democracy towards imported religions. One has all the less tried to elaborate definite answers as the main task, in this respect, is undoubtedly to ask the question as pointedly as one can.