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{"title":"“A Simple, Short, and Exact Account of the Facts”?","authors":"Drew Starling","doi":"10.1215/00161071-10152374","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/00161071-10152374","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This article examines how material constraints thought to stifle political news' production in France actually encouraged a small number of Jansenist priests, their lay defenders, and book-trade workers to develop new printing methods and a sophisticated print distribution system that enabled them to skirt policing in the production and distribution of the Nouvelles ecclésiastiques (1728–1803). The existence of the Nouvelles ecclésiastiques outside the official book trade liberated its authors to include content that no other paper could. The dense religious dispute about which it sought to inform readers, coupled with its uninitiated target audience, encouraged its authors not just to report the news but also to explain it in highly partisan terms. In so doing, the Nouvelles ecclésiastiques provided many readers with an initiation into news reading. While the news reported concerned a religious controversy, it worked to reshape how readers thought about religion and politics in early eighteenth-century France.","PeriodicalId":45311,"journal":{"name":"FRENCH HISTORICAL STUDIES","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43112009","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Confinement, Environment, and Slave Ships in Early Modern Ocean Voyages","authors":"Michael Harrigan","doi":"10.1215/00161071-10152360","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/00161071-10152360","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This article explores how onboard sociocultural practices were shaped by different conceptions of human and external environment on seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century French ships embarking for the Indian Ocean basin or across the Atlantic to the Caribbean. In these environments, in which large numbers of people were confined together, physical conditions shaped the sensory and social dynamics of ocean voyages, while they made ships ambiguous sites for the implementation of spiritual practices. Concepts of society responded to a largely unrecognizable marine environment; shipboard conditions of physical confinement were thought conducive to moral disorder, while ships were conceived of as a source of potentially subversive human energies that had to be channeled. These tensions reached a paroxysm on the slave ships increasingly crossing the Atlantic in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The conditions within early modern ships, this article contends, were exacerbated by multiple external factors, making the ship a uniquely unsustainable environment.","PeriodicalId":45311,"journal":{"name":"FRENCH HISTORICAL STUDIES","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41328860","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Meister and Jupille","authors":"Robert D. Priest","doi":"10.1215/00161071-10152388","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/00161071-10152388","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 In 1885 Louis Pasteur successfully treated two boys from different parts of rural France, Joseph Meister and Jean-Baptiste Jupille, with his experimental rabies vaccine. Arguing that the boys played an important role in shaping images of Pasteur and his vaccine in French culture, this article reconstructs their long relationships with the scientist and then traces their evolving cultural representations during the Third Republic up to 1940. Meister, a young child from Alsace who sought salvation in Paris, was particularly assimilable to nationalist narratives that Pasteur himself encouraged. Jupille, in fighting with a rabid dog to save young children from attack, could provide an exemplar of the selfless yet virile male adolescent whom late nineteenth-century authorities sought to produce. Both boys' stories produced associations that reflected favorably on Pasteur and the Pastorians, yet each also held an independent appeal at particular moments in modern French history.","PeriodicalId":45311,"journal":{"name":"FRENCH HISTORICAL STUDIES","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48138905","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Family Planning and Reproductive Agency in France","authors":"M. Bracke","doi":"10.1215/00161071-9933021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/00161071-9933021","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The article analyzes debates on family planning, demography, and gender roles to explore the emergence of new notions of the reproductive subject in France between the 1950s and the 1970s. Drawing on papers of French and international family planning organizations, it argues that while the expansion of family planning ideology across France allowed for the discursive and practical construction of an autonomous reproductive subject, such a subject was framed by a hierarchization according to race, culture, and social class. Specifically, the analysis focuses on interventions in immigrant groups and on the French family planning movement's contribution to programs in Francophone Africa before and after decolonization. The article aims to contribute to an understanding of family planning as a transnational movement embedded in the globalization of demographic debate and the drive to normalize the nuclear family, and to an understanding of sexual change in Europe as shaped by global processes.\u0000 L'article analyse les débats autour du planning familial, la démographie et les rôles des sexes pour explorer l’émergence de nouvelles idées du sujet reproductif en France entre les années 1950 et 1970. S'appuyant sur des documents d'organisations françaises et internationales, l'article soutient que l'expansion de l'idéologie du planning familial à travers la France a permis la construction discursive et pratique d'un sujet reproductif autonome, mais qu'un tel sujet était encadré par une hiérarchisation selon la race, la culture et la classe sociale. Plus précisément, l'analyse se concentre sur les interventions auprès de groupes d'immigrés en France pendant les années 1960, et sur la contribution du mouvement français de planification familiale aux programmes en Afrique francophone avant et après la décolonisation. L'article vise à contribuer à une compréhension de la planification familiale en tant que mouvement transnational ancré dans la mondialisation des débats démographiques et qui considérait la normalisation de la famille nucléaire comme œuvre civilisatrice.","PeriodicalId":45311,"journal":{"name":"FRENCH HISTORICAL STUDIES","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48212196","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Honneur et souveraineté","authors":"M. De Waele","doi":"10.1215/00161071-9932965","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/00161071-9932965","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 L'intérêt porté par le cardinal de Richelieu aux questions maritimes est bien connu des historiens. Ceux-ci, toutefois, l'ont généralement analysé sous un angle réaliste et rationnel, notamment en fonction de la nécessité de rattraper le retard pris face aux autres puissances européennes en ce domaine et du besoin de se protéger contre les ambitions espagnoles. Or, l'essor de la marine française s'explique également par l'importance de protéger l'honneur et la réputation du roi et du royaume, particulièrement contre la volonté du roi d'Angleterre de voir reconnue sa souveraineté sur les mers.\u0000 The interest shown by Cardinal Richelieu in maritime questions is well known to historians. Scholars have generally analyzed it from a realistic and rational angle, especially in terms of the need to catch up with the other European powers in this area and the need to protect the kingdom against Spanish ambitions. However, the rise of the French navy may also be explained by the need to protect the king's and the kingdom's honor and reputation, particularly against the desire of the king of England to see his sovereignty over the seas recognized.","PeriodicalId":45311,"journal":{"name":"FRENCH HISTORICAL STUDIES","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48778716","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Fear, Anger, and Rebellion","authors":"J. Freedman","doi":"10.1215/00161071-9932979","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/00161071-9932979","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Recent protests against police violence remind us just how volatile are the emotions inspired by law enforcement. Yet despite current interest in both the history of emotions and the history of policing, these two areas of research have for the most part remained separate. This article brings them together to explore the emotional impact of policing in eighteenth-century Paris. Drawing on documents from the police archive, it shows how fears of the police's expanding influence spread through various milieus. Denizens of the night who were engaged in illicit activities lived in fear of late-night raids. Parents with young boys feared the dangers to their sons posed by seemingly indiscriminate arrests of children found loitering in the streets. Yet sometimes those police actions triggered explosions of anger. Under what conditions did fear of the police become so intolerable that it provoked rebellion rather than subjugation?\u0000 Les protestations récentes contre la violence policière nous rappellent la volatilité des émotions inspirées par la police. Mais malgré l'intérêt croissant pour l'histoire des émotions et pour celle de la police, rares sont les études qui les mettent en relation. Cet article se situe à cheval entre les deux champs de recherche. Il se propose d'examiner l'impact affectif de la police parisienne au XVIIIe siècle. Il montre, sur la base de documents trouvés dans les archives de la police, comment les craintes inspirées par l'influence grandissante de la police ont touché différents milieux sociaux. Certains habitués de la vie nocturne engagés dans des activités illicites vivaient dans la crainte de rafles policières. Les parents de jeunes garçons craignaient de voir embarquer leurs enfants lors des campagnes d'arrestations apparemment arbitraires menées pour débarrasser les rues de jeunes qui y traînaient. Mais ces interventions enclenchaient parfois des mouvements de colère. Dans quelles circonstances la peur des services répressifs est-elle devenue si intolérable qu'elle ait provoqué la rébellion plutôt que l'assujettissement ?","PeriodicalId":45311,"journal":{"name":"FRENCH HISTORICAL STUDIES","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42496876","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Tourism, Nation Building, and Regional Identities in the French Basque Country, 1830–1870","authors":"Talitha Ilacqua","doi":"10.1215/00161071-9933007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/00161071-9933007","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The arrival of tourism in Biarritz and on the French Basque coast in the mid-nineteenth century accentuated the national sentiment of the area and its distinctive Basque cultural attributes alike. This article analyzes such dualism, emphasizing both transformations that turned Biarritz into a resort popular across France and Europe and modifications to local culture that made it a key feature of the tourist experience in the Basque Country. The contribution of the local population to the folklorization of its culture was key to its survival, underscoring the importance of regional folklore for the touristic success of France as a whole. Mid-nineteenth-century governments' support of local cultural initiatives, in turn, was necessary for their accomplishment, as well as for the maturing of an idea of France as unitary yet culturally diverse that came to define the early Third Republic after 1870.\u0000 Le début de l'expérience touristique à Biarritz et sur la côte basque française au milieu du dix-neuvième siècle a accentué le sentiment national de la région et les particularités culturelles basques. Cet article analyse ce dualisme et souligne deux aspects : les changements qui ont transformé Biarritz en une station touristique célèbre en France et en Europe, et les transformations de la culture locale qui était une partie importante de l'expérience touristique au Pays basque. La participation de la population à la création d'une culture folklorique fut fondamentale pour son existence et pour le succès touristique de la France entière. Le soutien des gouvernements du milieu du siècle aux initiatives culturelles locales fut nécessaire aussi pour l'achèvement et la maturation d'une idée de la France comme unitaire mais culturellement différenciée qui définit le début de la Troisième République.","PeriodicalId":45311,"journal":{"name":"FRENCH HISTORICAL STUDIES","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41365990","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"France's Great Indian Misadventure","authors":"Kenneth Margerison","doi":"10.1215/00161071-9932993","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/00161071-9932993","url":null,"abstract":"The French interest in attacking the British in India during the American Revolution was promoted by a variety of individuals with experience and often personal interests on the subcontinent. These individuals convinced the naval minister, Antoine de Sartine, and his successor, Charles de la Croix, marquis de Castries, that the Indian princes were eager to liberate India from British tyranny and with French assistance would launch an uprising to achieve this goal. Both ministers became avid proponents of launching an attack on the British in India coinciding with French entrance into the American War. Initially opposed to this venture, the foreign minister, Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes, ultimately came to see its value. The exaggerated predictions of a massive Indian revolt against the British never materialized. The difficulties of mounting a long-distance invasion and the tardy arrival of General Charles Joseph Patissier, marquis de Bussy-Castelnau, who did not reach India until after peace negotiations had begun, resulted in the failure of the French intervention.\u0000 L'intérêt des Français à attaquer les Britanniques en Inde pendant la Révolution américaine a été promu par une variété de personnes ayant de l'expérience et souvent des intérêts personnels sur le sous-continent. Ces individus ont convaincu le ministre de la Marine Sartine et son successeur Castries que les princes indiens désiraient libérer l'Inde de la tyrannie britannique et, avec l'aide de la France, lanceraient un soulèvement pour atteindre cet objectif. Les deux ministres devinrent de fervents partisans du lancement d'une attaque contre les Britanniques en Inde coïncidant avec l'entrée de la France dans la guerre américaine. Initialement opposé à cette entreprise, le ministre des Affaires étrangères Vergennes finit par en reconnaître la valeur. Les prédictions exagérées d'une révolte indienne massive contre les Britanniques ne se sont jamais matérialisées. Les difficultés d'organiser une invasion à longue distance et l'arrivée tardive de Bussy, qui n'arriva en Inde qu'après le début des négociations de paix, entraînèrent l’échec de l'intervention française.","PeriodicalId":45311,"journal":{"name":"FRENCH HISTORICAL STUDIES","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44786726","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Civilization and Its Discontents","authors":"D. Gilks","doi":"10.1215/00161071-9746615","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/00161071-9746615","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This article reinterprets Antoine Quatremère de Quincy's Letters on the Plan to Abduct the Monuments of Italy (1796). In response to official justifications that seizing cultural patrimony was France's civilizing mission, Quatremère argued that civilization required all nations to leave Rome intact and respect eighteenth-century conventions. The article shows how he attempted to make his work acceptable to republican readers by using a language uncharacteristic of his other writings and by mimicking the concept of a singular and secular civilization that was central to the post-Thermidorian Republic's identity. The Letters was part of the broader strategy of the royalist Clichy club to make republicans question the Republic. However, informed contemporaries saw through his conceit: they discerned an attack on the Directory in his description of how the papacy nourished and protected the civilization but endangered it in practice.\u0000 Cet article propose une nouvelle lecture des Lettres sur le déplacement des monuments de l'art de l'Italie (1796). Au discours officiel qui justifiait la saisie du patrimoine culturel de l'Italie vaincue au nom de la mission civilisatrice de la France, Quatremère oppose l'idée que c'est justement au nom de la civilisation que Rome doit être protégée et qu'il faut respecter les droits des nations tels qu'on les a définis au XVIIIe siècle. Quatremère s'est efforcé de présenter son texte de manière à le rendre acceptable aux lecteurs républicains : pour ce faire, il a eu recours à un langage très différent de celui de ses autres écrits, et il a fait semblant d'adhérer à l'idée de la civilisation unique et laïque au cœur de l'idéologie de la République post-Thermidorienne. Malgré ces efforts, les lecteurs avertis ont décelé son stratagème qui consiste à attaquer le Directoire tout en faisant de la papauté la vraie protectrice d'une civilisation que la République affirme défendre mais attaque en réalité. Les Lettres apparaissent ainsi comme un des éléments de la stratégie des Clichyens pour amener les républicains à remettre en question la République elle-même.","PeriodicalId":45311,"journal":{"name":"FRENCH HISTORICAL STUDIES","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45030902","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Fashion on the Brain","authors":"Katharine J. Hamerton","doi":"10.1215/00161071-9746587","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/00161071-9746587","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This article explores Nicolas Malebranche's approach to fashion: an inescapable postlapsarian consequence of God's sociable design of the human mind and body as manifested in the imagination. A problematic side effect of the general laws established by God governing the soul-body relationship, fashion wreaked havoc on individuals' thinking and potential for redemption yet pointed to a larger providential plan for social benefit. These ideas led Malebranche to a distinctive nonpolitical approach to fashion—both “Enlightenment project” and theodicy—in which he sought to promote, toward human liberation and salvation, an enlightened understanding of the processes that created fashion and a charitable approach to managing it. Ultimately, however, his brain-based analysis ended up limiting individual freedoms (imaginative, cognitive, and behavioral), notably for those endowed with certain kinds of minds, in ways that had long-lasting effect. It also helped lay foundations for the Enlightenment's conflicted views about fashion as individual folly and beneficial social phenomenon.\u0000 Cet article montre que, pour Nicolas Malebranche, la mode constitua une conséquence inévitable de la Chute et du dessin sociable et providentiel de l'esprit et du corps, manifesté dans l'imagination. Effet secondaire et problématique des lois générales établies par Dieu pour gouverner les relations entre l'esprit et le corps, la mode entrave la réflexion et l'accès au salut tout en dessinant un plan providentiel, au bénéfice de tous. A la fois projet des Lumières et théodicée, cette approche apolitique s'efforce, dans une visée mêlant libération, salut et charité, de saisir les processus qui créent la mode afin de s'en accommoder. Parce qu'elle met l'accent sur le cerveau, cette approche tend pourtant à restreindre, de manière durable, les libertés individuelles (imagination, cognition, comportement), surtout pour certains types d'esprit. Et elle montre comment, pour les Lumières, la mode peut être à la fois une folie individuelle et un phénomène à multiples vertus sociales.","PeriodicalId":45311,"journal":{"name":"FRENCH HISTORICAL STUDIES","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47494024","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}