Nobility Reimagined : The Patriotic Nation in Eighteenth-Century France /
Smith argues that the attempt to redefine and restore French nobility brought forth competing visions of patriotism with correlating models of the social and political order. Although the terms of public debate have changed, the same basic challenge continues to animate contemporary politics.
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
2005.
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Table des matières:
- Introduction: honor, virtue, and patriotism in eighteenth-century France
- Nobility and the appeal to virtue in early eighteenth-century France (1700s-1740s)
- Nobility and the longing for virtue: patriotic possibilities from Montesquieu to Mirabeau
- Patriotism and social taxonomy in the debate over La noblesse commeṙante
- Patriotic resurgence and the nationalization of honor (1760s-1780)
- Nobility in a nation of citizens (1760s-early 1780s)
- Defining nobility and nation in 1788-1789
- Conclusion: patriotic revolution.