Modernités de l'Ancien Régime, 1750-1789 / Alain Becchia.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Becchia, Alain.

Series:

Collection "Histoire" (Rennes, France)

Collection histoire, 1255-2364

Language:

French

Subjects (All):

Enlightenment--France.

Enlightenment.

France.

France--Civilization--18th century.

Civilization.

France--Intellectual life--18th century.

Intellectual life.

France--Social conditions--18th century.

Social conditions.

France--Politics and government--18th century.

Politics and government.

France--Social life and customs.

Manners and customs.

Physical Description:

501 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Rennes : Presses universitaires de Rennes, [2012]

Summary:

The last decades of the Ancien Régime has often been described as powerless and the slow agony of a society incapable of reform. However, if you look closely, demographic behavior changed significantly, revealing significant changes in attitudes. Meanwhile, dynamism and modernity characterized major sectors of the economy and social life. Agriculture was slowly in a thousand points, the industrialized countries and the general maritime trade reached its peak. A significant proportion of the nobility or clergy, actually seemed imbued with the Enlightenment and was involved elsewhere in the modernization of the economy and the dissemination of new ideas. But if the Revolution introduced a clear break, no one can deny that it is also necessary to emphasize the continuities and undeniable legacy collected. Many innovations that revolutionary governments resume later on their own were, in fact, designed and prepared in the last period of the Ancien Régime. The Revolution, from 1789 to 1791, experienced by many actors of the time as a kind of fulfillment, often carried out projects that the monarchy had attempted or dreamed, which is not the least of paradoxes.

Notes:

"Ouvrage publié avec le concours de l'Université de Savoie-Chambéry."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 465-482) and index.

ISBN:

9782753520370

2753520372

9782753519947

2753519943

OCLC:

814302667