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French Bishops and the Coming of the Revolution, 1786-90
Nigel Aston
ISBN: 9780198202844
Format: Hardback
Publisher:Oxford University Press
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This is the first scholarly study in English of the bishops of the French Church at the outbreak of the French Revolution. The 130 members of the episcopate formed an elite within an elite, the First Estate of the kingdom. Much has been written in recent years about the late eighteenth…
This is a scholarly study in English of the bishops of the French Church at the outbreak of the French Revolution. The 130 members of the episcopate formed an elite within an elite, the First Estate of France. Nigel Aston explores the role of the episcopate in national and provincial politics in the last years of the Ancien Regime. He traces the policies and patronage of episcopal ministers such as Lomienie de Brienne and J. M. Champion de Cice, who were as much politicians as pastors, and examines their relationships with their fellow bishops. Dr Aston emphasizes the leading role of the bishops in the Assemblies of Notables and offers a fresh interpretation of clerical elections to the Estates-General of 1789.
| ISBN | 0198202849 | | Pages | 351 | | ISBN13 | 9780198202844
(What's this?) | | Volumes | 001 | | Publisher | Oxford University Press | | Weight (grammes) | 570 | | Imprint | Clarendon Press | | Published in | Oxford | | Format | Hardback | | Series editor | Brock, M.G., Brock, M.G., Brock, M.G. | | Publication date | 29 Oct 1992 | | Series title | Oxford Historical Monographs | | Non-book description | ix342 | | Height (mm) | 210 | | Library of Congress | BX1530.A68 | | Width (mm) | 130 | | DEWEY | 944.03508822 | | Spine width (mm) | 27 | | DEWEY edition | DC21 | | Academic level | Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly |
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| | | Abbreviations | | | | | | Introduction | | 1 | | 1 | | An Apostolic Elite: The Bishops of the French Church at the end of the Ancien Regime | | 5 | | 2 | | The Bishops, Political Reform and Public Administration | | 30 | | 3 | | The Bishops and the First Assembly of Notables, Spring 1787 | | 46 | | 4 | | A Clerical Minister: Brienne, the Bishops, and the Local Assemblies | | 67 | | 5 | | The Fall of Brienne | | 89 | | 6 | | Necker, the Clergy, and 'Patriotism' | | 117 | | 7 | | Bishops versus Cures: Clerical Elections to the Estates-General, Spring 1789 | | 134 | | 8 | | The End of the First Estate: The Bishops and the Estates-General, May-July 1789 | | 157 | | 9 | | The Failure of Patriotism: The Bishops in the National Assembly, July-September 1789 | | 182 | | 10 | | The Bishops outside the Assembly and the New Political Order, 1789-1790 | | 203 | | 11 | | The Constitutionalists on the Defensive, Winter 1789-1790 | | 212 | | 12 | | The Bishops and the Civil Constitution, 1790 | | 231 | | | | Appendix 1. Map of the Bishoprics of France, 1789 | | 247 | | | | Appendix 2. The Archbishops and Bishops of France in 1789 Listed by Province | | 250 | | | | Appendix 3. Episcopal Membership of the Provincial Assemblies, 1787-1788 | | 266 | | | | Appendix 4. Prelates Elected to the Estates-General, May 1789 | | 268 | | | | Appendix 5. Summary of Careers of the Archbishops and Bishops of the French Church after the Outbreak of the Revolution, Arranged According to Province | | 269 |
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