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The Religious Origins of the French Revolution

From Calvin to the Civil Constitution, 1560-1791

By: Dale K. Van Kley

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The Religious Origins of the French Revolution

From Calvin to the Civil Constitution, 1560-1791

By: Dale K. Van Kley

Although the French Revolution is associated with efforts to dechristianize the French state and citizens, it actually had long-term religious--even Christian--origins, claims Dale Van Kley in this controversial new book. Looking back at the two and a half centuries that preceded the revolution, Van Kley explores the diverse, often warring religious strands that influenced political events up to the revolution. Van Kley draws on a wealth of primary sources to show that French royal absolutism was first a product and then a casualty of religious conflict. On the one hand, the religious civil wars of the sixteenth century between the Calvinist and Catholic internationals gave rise to Bourbon divine-right absolutism in the seventeenth century. On the other hand, Jansenist-related religious conflicts in the eighteenth century helped to "desacralize" the monarchy and along with it the French Catholic clergy, which was closely identified with Bourbon absolutism. The religious conflicts of the eighteenth century also made a more direct contribution to the revolution, for they left a legacy of protopolitical and ideological parties (such as the Patriot party, a successor to the Jansenist party), whose rhetoric affected the content of revolutionary as well as counterrevolutionary political culture. Even in its dechristianizing phase, says Van Kley, revolutionary political culture was considerably more indebted to varieties of French Catholicism than it realized.

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From Deficit to Deluge

The Origins of the French Revolution

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Seven authorities in their respective fields come together to offer a new interpretation of the French Revolution: they show how the French monarchy's clumsy efforts to solve a fiscal crisis politicized long-standing structural problems, metastasizing an apparently fairly "normal" fiscal crisis into a revolution.

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Stanford University Press

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0804772819

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Reform Catholicism and the International Suppression of the Jesuits in Enlightenment Europe

By: Dale K. Van Kley

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Reform Catholicism and the International Suppression of the Jesuits in Enlightenment Europe

By: Dale K. Van Kley

An investigation into the role of Reform Catholicism in the international suppression of the Jesuits in 1773 The Jesuits devoted themselves to preaching the word of God, administering the sacraments, and spreading the faith by missions in both Europe and newly discovered lands abroad. But, in 1773, under intense pressure from the monarchs of Europe, the papacy suppressed the Society of Jesus, an act that reverberated from Europe to the Americas and Southeast Asia. In this scholarly history, Dale Van Kley argues that Reform Catholicism, not a secular Enlightenment, provided the justification for Catholic kings to suppress a society instituted by the papacy. Spanning the years from the mid‑sixteenth century to the onset of the French Revolution, and the Jesuit presence from China to Brazil, this is the only single volume in English to make coherent sense of the series of expulsions that add up to what was arguably the most important religious event in Europe of the time, resulting in the secularization of tens of thousands of Jesuits.

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0300228465

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The French Idea of Freedom

The Old Regime and the Declaration of Rights of 1789

By: Dale Van Kley

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The French Idea of Freedom

The Old Regime and the Declaration of Rights of 1789

By: Dale Van Kley

The Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen of 1789” is the French Revolution’s best known utterance. By 1789, to be sure, England looked proudly back to the Magna Carta, the Petition of Right, and a bill of rights, and even the young American Declaration of Independence and the individual states’ various declarations and bills of rights preceded the French Declaration. But the French deputies of the National Assembly tried hard, in the words of one of their number, not to receive lessons from others but rather "to give them” to the rest of the world, to proclaim not the rights of Frenchmen, but those "for all times and nations.” The chapters in this book treat mainly the origins of the Declaration in the political thought and practice of the preceding three centuries that Tocqueville designated the "Old Regime.” Among the topics covered are privileged corporations; the events of the three months preceding the Declaration; blacks, Jews, and women; the Assembly’s debates on the Declaration; the influence of sixteenth-century notions of sovereignty and the separation of powers; the rights of the accused in legal practices and political trials from 1716 to 1789; the natural rights to freedom of religion; and the monarchy’s "feudal” exploitation of the royal domain.

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0804728062

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The Religious Origins of the French Revolution

From Calvin to the Civil Constitution, 1560-1791

By: Dale K. Van Kley

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From Calvin to the Civil Constitution, 1560-1791

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The Damiens Affair and the Unraveling of the ANCIEN REGIME, 1750-1770

By: Dale K. Van Kley

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The Damiens Affair and the Unraveling of the ANCIEN REGIME, 1750-1770

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This book examines an unsuccessful assassination attempt against Louis XV of France and the trial of his assailant, Robert-Francois Damiens, revealing the beginnings of the French Revolution in the ecclesiastical controversies that dominated the Damiens affair. Originally published in 1984. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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1400857287

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Reform Catholicism and the International Suppression of the Jesuits in Enlightenment Europe

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The Damiens Affair and the Unraveling of the ANCIEN REGIME, 1750-1770

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The Damiens Affair and the Unraveling of the Ancien Régime, 1750-1770

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This book examines an unsuccessful assassination attempt against Louis XV of France and the trial of his assailant, Robert-Francois Damiens, revealing the beginnings of the French Revolution in the ecclesiastical controversies that dominated the Damiens affair. Originally published in 1984. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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The Religious Origins of the French Revolution

The Religious Origins of the French Revolution

From Deficit to Deluge

From Deficit to Deluge

Reform Catholicism and the International Suppression of the Jesuits in Enlightenment Europe

Reform Catholicism and the International Suppression of the Jesuits in Enlightenment Europe

The French Idea of Freedom

The French Idea of Freedom

The Religious Origins of the French Revolution

The Religious Origins of the French Revolution

The Damiens Affair and the Unraveling of the ANCIEN REGIME, 1750-1770

The Damiens Affair and the Unraveling of the ANCIEN REGIME, 1750-1770

Reform Catholicism and the International Suppression of the Jesuits in Enlightenment Europe

Reform Catholicism and the International Suppression of the Jesuits in Enlightenment Europe

The Damiens Affair and the Unraveling of the ANCIEN REGIME, 1750-1770

The Damiens Affair and the Unraveling of the ANCIEN REGIME, 1750-1770

The Damiens Affair and the Unraveling of the Ancien Régime, 1750-1770

The Damiens Affair and the Unraveling of the Ancien Régime, 1750-1770

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