scholarly journals Dogancan Özsel (ed.), Reflections on Conservatism (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011)

2012 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Garrett Barden
Keyword(s):  
Alexis De Tocqueville ◽  
Ancien Regime ◽  
The Past ◽  
Ancien Régime ◽  
The Revolution

In the foreword to his The Ancien Régime and the Revolution (1856) Alexis de Tocqueville wrote that “No nation had ever before embarked on so resolute an attempt as that of the French in 1789 to break with the past, to make, as it were, a scission in their life line and to create an unbridgeable gulf between all they had hitherto been and all they now aspired to be. …in a word, they spared no pains in their endeavour to obliterate their former selves.”

Napoleon, The Revolution, and The Empire

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip Dwyer
Keyword(s):  
New France ◽  
New Order ◽  
Ancien Regime ◽  
Third Way ◽  
The Past ◽  
Long Line ◽  
The Face ◽  
Ancien Régime ◽  
Radical Republicanism ◽  
The Revolution

In the face of the long line of political failures that was the Revolution, the foundation of the Empire in 1804 was an attempt to create a new polity, a third way between radical republicanism and royalism. The regime created by Napoleon was a curious mixture of the modern and the traditional, a new social and political fusion between the old and the new France. The Empire, and the reforms that emanated from it, had its roots in the Revolution. Despite the opposition that they sometimes encountered, they were all conceived as instruments of social and political cohesion. The imperial regime represented a new polity that both broke with the past and relied on ancien régime institutions and people to help implant the new order.

The Conseil Constitutionnel and Judicial Review

1991 ◽  
Vol 12 (x) ◽  
pp. 61-82
Author(s):  
Richard Cicchillo
Keyword(s):  
Judicial Review ◽  
Ancien Regime ◽  
Similar System ◽  
Modern France ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Law ◽  
Ancien Régime ◽  
The Revolution

For Americans, long accustomed to judicial review of the law, the traditional absence of a similar system of constitutional control in France comes as a surprise. Closer examination however, reveals that the French politico-historico-judicial tradition inherited from the Ancien Régime and the Revolution of 1789 is deeply opposed to the development of "government by the judges." Why did the Revolution react against the judiciary? How has the idea of constitutional control evolved in modern France? What are the possible sources of legitimacy for an institution (the Conseil constitutionnel) and a concept (judicial review) cut off from the sanction of tradition? What is the future of the Conseil?

Debating Slavery

2020 ◽  
pp. 103-123
Author(s):  
Alan Forrest
Keyword(s):  
Ancien Regime ◽  
Port Cities ◽  
Chambers Of Commerce ◽  
Learned Societies ◽  
Ancien Régime ◽  
The Revolution

The chapter examines the moral threat to slaving in the last years of the Ancien Régime with the rise of abolitionism, first in Britain, then more gradually, in France. Moral qualms about slavery had first been expressed by Enlightened authors like Raynal and Condorcet; but the writings of some English abolitionists, notably Thomas Clarkson, proved equally powerful. However, in merchant circles, especially the chambers of commerce, slaves continued to be seen as a commodity, and the slaving interest was violently defended as the Revolution approached. The chapter examines pamphlets produced by both sides in the debate, and discusses the role of masonic lodges, clubs, and learned societies in the port cities themselves.

scholarly journals LA CATTEDRALE, CUORE RELIGIOSO DELLA CITTA'

1970 ◽  
pp. 11-30
Author(s):  
Paola Vismara
Keyword(s):  
Religious Life ◽  
Ancien Regime ◽  
Long Period ◽  
The Past ◽  
History Of ◽  
Ancien Régime ◽  
The City

Riassunto.–Si ripercorrono alcune tappe del ruolo del Duomo di Milano nella storia della città, per grandissime linee. In tale sede, almeno sino alla fine dell’ancien régime, avevano luogo i grandi eventi della vita politica e civile, seppur non senza tensioni. La cattedrale era il cuore della città, in primo luogo il cuore liturgico e pastorale della vita religiosa. Si segnala lo sfarzo delle cerimonie straordinarie che vi si svolgevano, il ruolo della musica e, in particolare, la funzione del luogo e delle sue cerimonie nel contesto dell’azione degli arcivescovi. Seppur in forme diverse rispetto alpassato, alcuni aspetti della ritualità e della centralità del Duomo giungono sino ai nostri giorni.***Abstract.–The article offers an overview of the history of the cathedral of Milanin the context of the city. For a long period - at least until the end of the ancien régime - the Duomo housed the most important events of the city and was often thetheatre of tensions between ecclesiastical and political authorities. The cathedral wasthe heart of the city and the center of pastoral activities and of religious life. Splendid ceremonies, often accompanied by music, took place in the Duomo, highlighting the importance of the bishops in the city. Even thouh in a different way compared to the past, some aspects of the rituality and centrality of the Duomo are stillrelevant today.

scholarly journals The Transformations of Travel during the Revolution and the Empire: the Italian Case

Viatica ◽  
2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gilles BERTRAND ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Strong Impact ◽  
Ancien Regime ◽  
Experimental Field ◽  
Italian Case ◽  
First Empire ◽  
Ancien Régime ◽  
The Way ◽  
The Revolution

This article studies the situation of French travellers in Italy during the Revolution and the First Empire. Revolutionary unrest and breaks with the Ancien Régime had a strong impact on the way Europeans travelled during this period. In addition to the nobles and the literate who continued to travel, other members of the population and new travel areas for exploration appeared. According to the Venetian archives dating from 1789 to 1796, Italy, a welcoming land for some, became an experimental field for strategies with political and scientific stakes.

scholarly journals Aportes de la Modernidad al desarrollo de la teoría democrática

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 69-92 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jesús Alberto Márquez Ramírez
Keyword(s):  
Alexis De Tocqueville ◽  
Ancien Regime ◽  
Maximilien Robespierre ◽  
Ancien Régime

El objetivo del presente artículo consiste en analizar el pensamiento de algunos autores representativos de la Modernidad y sus aportes al desarrollo de la teoría democrática moderna. La metodología implementada es de índole hermenéutica, inspirada en los aportes de Gadamer (1993), Foucault (2002), a objeto de interpretar el sentido que los autores seleccionados le otorgan de forma, abierta o sobreentendida, a la democracia como gobierno del pueblo.El trabajo pone de relieve los aportes del liberalismo y la ilustración en la definición moderna de la democracia, por lo cual se identifican las líneas maestras trazadas por cuatro intelectuales que impulsaron con sus ideas vanguardistas el tránsito del ancien régime a la modernidad: Baruch de Spinoza (1632-1677), Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778), Maximilien Robespierre (1758-1794) y Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859).

Political Development in the New States

1960 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 265-292 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward Shils
Keyword(s):  
Political Development ◽  
Ancien Regime ◽  
The Past ◽  
New States ◽  
Ancien Régime

There are very few states today which do not aspire to modernity. The day of rulers who were indifferent to the archaism of the society which they governed has almost disappeared. The leaders of nearly every state—both the old established states as well as the new states of Asia and Africa—feel a pressing necessity of espousing policies which will bring them well within the circle of modernity. Much of the opposition which they encounter among their politically interested countrymen contends that they are not modern enough. Many traditionalists are constrained to assert that only by cleaving to the essence of older traditions can a genuine and stable modernity be attained.Modern states must be “dynamic”, above all else. To be modern, an elite, as the elites of the new states see it, must not fear change; on the contrary, it umst strive to bring it about. It does not wish to remain as it is. It is against the ancien regime; even where it affirms the past of the country, it stresses its adaptability to the needs of the pressent. “Dynamic” is one of the favorite adjectives of the elites of the new states. The elites pride themselves on their dynamism and they claim that the mass of the population demands it of them. Almost everything else which they esteem presupposes this praise of change.

Between Polite Economy and the Gift: Nineteenth-Century British Travelers and Persian Excess

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 134-160
Author(s):  
Niloofar Sarlati
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Ancien Regime ◽  
Gift Giving ◽  
Modern Conception ◽  
Global Circulation ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Gift ◽  
Ancien Régime

Abstract Nineteenth-century travelogues by British travelers to Persia commonly include warnings against “excessive” Persian politeness, casting it as flattery or deceit. While this pejorative representation of Persian cordiality is a token of British Orientalism, it also highlights the incompatible measures for pleasantries in Persia and Britain. This essay traces the competing economies of social courtesy in these two contexts: a desire for utmost calculability in the British market entailed a new conception of politeness, one more moderate and commercial; by contrast, Persian politeness operated through gift-giving and “extravagant” greetings and complimenting. While the former hinges on a “modern” conception of commerce, the latter pivots around the bargain entailed in gift-giving. (Mis)recognition and (mis)translation of Persian “excess” as the hypocrisy of the ancien régime in the travelogues, however, signpost a teleological fabrication of the past which urges a global circulation of the British notion of polite character.

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