sentation du
territoire
franc?
Cult of the Nation in France
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. 26 (Le Paige to Murard, 20 May 1772). See also Van Kley, The Damiens Affair, 193. Maximes du droit public franc? ois (Amsterdam, 1772). On the influence of this work, see Dale Van Kley, "The Jansenist Constitutional Legacy in the French Pre-Revolution," in Baker, The Political Culture of the Old Regime (see Intro. , n. 32), 169-201.
[Jacques-Claude Martin de Mariveaux], L'ami des loix, ou les vrais principes de la le? gislation franc? oise ([n. p. ], 1775), 6, 25.
[Guillaume-Joseph Saige], Le cate? chisme du citoyen, quoted in Baker, In- venting, 143.
As several recent studies have concluded, the changes in French political cul-
dramatically.
1760-64 0. 77 1765-69 3. 39 1770-74 3. 79 1775-79 1. 24 1780-84 1. 20 1785-89 3. 31
"Nation"
"Public Opinion"
1. 67 1. 20 0. 63 1. 38 0. 88 1. 36
(use per 100,000 words)
91. According to the on-line catalogue of the Bibliothe`que Nationale de France: http://catalogue. bnf. fr.
92. [Jurieu], Les voeux d'un patriote (Amsterdam, 1788). Notes to Pages 71-73
93. As recently demonstrated by Dale Van Kley in "From the Lessons of French History to Truths for All Times and All People: The Historical Origins of an Anti-Historical Declaration," in Van Kley, ed. , French Idea, 72-113, and esp,
80-91.
94. [Pierre-Jean Agier], Le jurisconsulte national, ou principes sur la ne? cessite? du
consentement de la nation pour e? tablir et proroger les impo^ts (n. p. , 1788).
95. Quoted in Van Kley, "From the Lessons of French History," 81-82.
96. This assertion, based on my reading in the pre-revolutionary pamphlet litera-
ture, is also supported by Fehrenbach, "Nation"; Godechot, "Nation, patrie, nationalisme et patriotisme"; Hampson, "La patrie"; and Garrett, "French Nationalism. "
97. Godard to Cortot, May 29, 1788, Archives De? partementales de la Co^te d'Or, E 642. On the "national party" see also, for instance, Le roi et ses ministres, dia- logues (n. p. , [1788]), 3-4.
98. Emmanuel Sieye`s, Qu'est-ce que le Tiers Etat? (Paris, 1789). On Sieye`s and his influence, see most recently William H. Sewell, Jr. , A Rhetoric of Bourgeois Revolution: The Abbe? Sieye`s and 'What Is the Third Estate? ' (Durham, 1994).
99. "Manifeste aux Normands," and "Manifeste aux Bretons," reprinted in
Notes to Pages 71-73 247
? ture unleashed by Maupeou's coup were irreversible. See for instance, Maza,
Private Lives, esp. 313-24; Bell, Lawyers and Citizens, 148-81
90. See Ozouf, "L'opinion publique," 431-32. Measuring the popularity of terms is a difficult call, and the assertion here is based above all on my general sense from having read widely in the primary literature. However, the ARTFL data- base again provides a suggestive comparison. The use of "nation," as shown below, jumped dramatically both during lead-up to the Maupeou crisis and the crisis itself (1771-74), and then again during the pre-revolution (1785- 1789). "Public opinion," on the other hand, registered a decline during the Maupeou crisis, and even in the pre-revolutionary conflict it did not jump
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Notes to Pages 73-76
? 100.
101.
102.
103. 104.
Notes to Pages 73-76
105.
106. 107.
108.
109.
110.
Maupeouana, ou Recueil complet des e? crits patriotiques publie? s pendant le regne du Chancelier Maupeou, 7 vols. (Paris, 1775), VI, 1-21, 84-97, quote from 1. Quoted in Berlet, Les tendances unitaires (see Intro. , n. 57), 10, 59; Aulard, Le patriotisme, 103; and Jules Keller, Le the? osophe Fre? de? ric-Rodolphe Saltzmann et les milieux spirituels de son temps, 2 vols. (The Hague, 1985), I, 194; Provenc? al material quoted by Rafe Blaufarb in unpublished conference paper, Society for French Historical Studies, Washington D. C. , 1999.
See on this subject David A. Bell, "Nation-Building and Cultural Particular- ism in Eighteenth-Century France: The Case of Alsace," Eighteenth-Century Studies, XXI/4 (1988), 472-90. On the absence of secessionist movements during the redrawing of France's internal boundaries, see Marie-Vic Ozouf- Marignier, La Formation des de? partements: La repre?
sentation du territoire franc? ais a` la fin du 18e` sie`cle (Paris, 1989); Ted Margadant, Urban Rivalries in the French Revolution (Princeton, 1992).
See particularly on this subject Antoine de Baecque, The Body Politic: Corpo- real Metaphor in Revolutionary France, 1770-1800, trans. Charlotte Mandel (Stanford, 1997), 132-38.
Quoted in ibid. , 138.
J. Villier, Nouveau plan d'e? ducation et d'instruction publique de? die? a` l'Assemble? e nationale dans lequel on substitue aux universite? s, seminaires et colle`ges des e? tablissements plus raisonnables, plus utiles, plus dignes d'une grande nation (Angers, 1789), vi-viii. For further discussion of this discourse of "degeneration" see Chapter 5 below.
In this analysis I take issue somewhat with Jacques Revel's important article, "La re? gion," in Nora, ed. , Les lieux de me? moire, 851-83, pt. III, I, in which, drawing on the work of Mona Ozouf and Catherine Bertho, he argues that the "regional problem" was invented in the early years of the Revolution itself. Toussaint Guiraudet, Qu'est-ce que la nation et qu'est-ce que la France (n. p. , 1789).
See Van Kley, "From the Lessons of French History," and esp. Joseph John Zizek, "The Politics and Poetics of History in the French Revolution, 1787- 1794," Ph. D. diss. , University of California, Berkeley (1995).
For this section I am relying on the rich literature already available on the concept of "regeneration" in the era of the French Revolution. See particu- larly Mona Ozouf, "Re? ge? ne? ration," in Furet and Ozouf, eds. , Dictionnaire (see Intro. , n. 77), 821-31; de Baecque, The Body Politic, 131-56; and most re- cently, Sepinwall, "Regenerating France" (see Ch. 1, n. 91), esp. 83-7.
On this shift to a social, statistical description of the nation, and the influence of the physiocrats (which was particularly strong on Sieye`s), see esp. Baker, Inventing, 238-50.
Pierre-Louis de Lacretelle, De la convocation de la prochaine tenue des e? tats-
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? ge? ne? raux (Paris, 1789), quoted in Shafer, "Bourgeois Nationalism," 35;
Guiraudet, Qu'est-ce que la nation, 63, Sieye`s, passim.
111. Here I am following Baker, Inventing, 238-51; Friedland, "Representation,"
esp. 1-60.
112. Sepinwall, 85-6.
113. Jean Starobinski, "Eloquence et liberte? ," Revue suisse de l'histoire, XXVI
(1976), 549-63, quote from 562.
114. Cited in Fehrenbach, "Nation," 58.
115. Quoted in Vovelle, "Entre cosmopolitisme et xe? nophobie," 15.
116. For two examples from 1789, see Fauchet, La religion nationale, 2; Foix, Le
patriotisme (see Ch. 1, n. 75), 3-4.
3. English Barbarians, French Martyrs
1. For the most recent, complete, and impartial accounts of the incident, see Francis Jennings, Empire of Fortune: Crowns, Colonies and Tribes in the Seven Years War in America (New York, 1988), 67-70, and Richard White, The Mid- dle Ground: Indians, Empires and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650- 1815 (Cambridge, 1991), 240-41. Jennings concludes that Jumonville was most likely killed by Tanaghrisson. See also Gilbert F. Leduc, Washington and the "Murder of Jumonville" (Boston, 1943). For an account critical of Wash- ington, see abbe? Georges Robitaille, Washington et Jumonville (Montreal, 1933). Notes to Pages 76-80
2. The French literature invariably identified the enemy as "England" rather than "Britain. " When discussing the literature, I will follow this usage.
3. Among works that discussed Jumonville's death, see Antoine-Le? onard Thomas, Jumonville (Paris, 1759); [Jacob-Nicolas Moreau], Me? moire con- tenant le pre? cis des faits avec leurs pie`ces justificatives (Paris, 1756); Moreau, L'Observateur hollandois, ou seconde lettre de M. Van ** a` M. H** de la Haye (The Hague, 1755), esp. 20-35; L'Observateur hollandois, troisie`me lettre . . . and cinquie`me lettre . . . (The Hague, 1755); [Edme-Jacques Genet], Petit catechisme politique des Anglois, traduit de leur langue (n. p. , n. d. [1757]), 4; [Lefebvre de Beauvray], Adresse (see Ch. l, n. 75), 7; Audibert, "Poe? me," in Recueil ge? ne? ral des pie`ces, chansons et fe^tes donne? es a` l'occasion de la prise du Port-Mahon ("France," 1757), 48; Denis-Ponce Ecouchard ("Lebrun"), Ode nationale contre l'Angleterre (Paris, 1758), 2-3; Se? ran de la Tour, Paralle`le de la conduite des carthaginois a` l'e? gard des romains, dans la seconde guerre punique, avec la conduite de l'Angleterre, a` l'e? gard de la France, dans la guerre de? clare? e par ces deux puissances, en 1756 (n. p. , 1757), 185-91.
4. Thomas, Jumonville, 22. I am assuming "souleva" is a misprint for "soule`ve. "
5. Zimmermann, Vom Nationalstolze (see Ch. 1, n. 111), 177.
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6. 7.
8.
Me? moires de Tre? voux (Me? moires pour servir a` l'histoire des sciences et des arts),
1756, II, 1756-57.
See Claude de Sacy, L'honneur franc? ois, ou Histoire des vertus et des exploits de notre nation, depuis l'Etablissement de la Monarchie jusqu'a` nos jours, 12 vols. (Paris, 1769-84), XI, 284-86; and Louis-Pierre Manuel, L'anne? e franc? oise, ou Vies des Hommes qui ont honore? la France, ou par leurs talens, ou par leurs ser- vices, & surtout par leurs vertus, 4 vols. (Paris, 1789), III, 12-15.
[Lefebvre de Beauvray], Adresse, 11; Lebrun, Ode aux franc? ois (Angers, 1762), 1. Lebrun's poem also contains the Marseillaise-like line "L'entendez-vous ge? mir cette auguste Patrie? " See David A. Bell, "Aux origines de la 'Marseil- laise': L'Adresse a` la nation angloise de Claude-Rigobert Lefebvre de Beauvray," Annales historiques de la Re? volution franc? aise, 299 (1995), 75-77. Lefebvre himself may well have borrowed from N. de Coulange, Ode sur les anglois au sujet de la Guerre pre? sente (Paris, 1756), 7: "Puissiez-vous aborder sur leurs propres rivages / Et de leur sang parjure arrosant les sillons. " Dziembowski, in Un nouveau patriotisme (see Intro. , n. 33), has also noticed these borrowings (82) and found further precedents in the 1656 verses by Boileau: "Et leurs corps pourris dans nos plaines / N'ont fait qu'engraisser nos sillons. "
Dziembowski, in Un nouveau patriotisme, has provided the first scholarly survey of this literature. He states that the French propagandists treated Jumonville's death as England's "original sin" (76) but does not explore the representations of this event in a systematic way.
The exception is Audibert, "Poe? me," 47: "Re? unis autrefois dans le sein de l'Eglise / L'He? re? sie aujourd'hui les guide & les divise. " On British anti-Cathol- icism in the period, see Colley, Britons (see Intro. , n. 26), 11-54. The fascinat- ing evidence of a possible plot involving French Protestants has been un- earthed by John D. Woodbridge in Revolt in Prerevolutionary France: The Prince de Conti's Conspiracy against Louis XV, 1755-1757 (Baltimore, 1995). Jacobin clubs quoted in Wahnich, L'impossible citoyen (see Intro. , n. 33), 322-3; Bertrand Bare`re, Rapport sur les crimes de l'Angleterre envers le Peuple franc? ais, et sur ses attentats contre la liberte? des Nations (Paris, 1794), 18. On the treatment of Pitt, and on the "take no prisoners" decree, see Norman Hampson, The Perfidy of Albion: French Perceptions of England during the French Revolution (Houndmills, Basingstoke, 1998), 103-19, 142-43.
See John Brewer, The Sinews of Power: War, Money and the English State, 1688-1783 (New York, 1989); James C. Riley, The Seven Years' War and the Old Regime in France: The Economic and Financial Toll (Princeton, 1986). For examples from the Hundred Years' War, see, for instance, the material collected in Marie-Madeleine Martin, The Making of France: The Origins and Development of the Idea of National Unity, Barbara and Robert North, trans.
9.
10.
11.
12.
13.
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? (London, 1951), 108-20. An amusing catalogue of national invective in the Renaissance can be found in John Hale, The Civilization of the Renaissance in Europe (New York, 1994), 51-66. More recently, many seventeenth-century French authors copiously indulged in the delights of Hispanophobia. See for instance Franc? ois de La Mothe le Vayer, Discours de la contrarie? te? d'humeurs qui se trouve entre certains nations, et singulie`rement entre la franc? aise et l'espagnole (Paris, 1636).
14. On the use of print in the wars of the Reformation, see especially Denis Pallier, Recherches sur l'imprimerie a` Paris pendant la Ligue, 1585-1594 (Geneva 1975); R. W. Scribner, For the Sake of Simple Folk: Popular Propa- ganda for the German Reformation (Cambridge, 1981). See also David A. Bell, "Unmasking a King: The Political Uses of Popular Literature under the French Catholic League, 1588-89," Sixteenth-Century Journal, 20 (1989), 371-86.
15. This assertion is based on holdings of the French Bibliothe`que Nationale, in my own survey of the number of publications that qualify as wartime propa- ganda--including plays and poems as well as pamphlets--and on material cited in Dziembowski, Un nouveau patriotisme. On wartime propaganda in the War of the Spanish Succession, see Joseph Klaits, Printed Propaganda un- der Louis XIV: Absolute Monarchy and Public Opinion (Princeton, 1976). On the Seven Years War, in addition to the fundamental work of Dziembowski, see also Nicholas Rowe, "Romans and Carthaginians in the Eighteenth Cen- tury: Imperial Ideology and National Identity in Britain and France during the Seven Years' War," Ph. D. diss. , Boston College (1997); Charles Gevaert Salas, "Punic Wars in France and Britain," Ph. D. diss. , Claremont Graduate School (1996); and Brenner, L'histoire nationale (see Ch. 2, n. 61), esp. 243-6N6otes to Pag. es 83-84
16. Journal encyclope? dique par une socie? te? de gens de lettres, 1756, VI, Sept. 15, 78.
