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Anticléricalisme et politique dans l'Ouest de la France à la fin du XVIIIe siècle

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[fre] Résumé : Bien avant 1789, les élites bourgeoises, dans l'Ouest de la France, sont en partie gagnées à l'anticléricalisme, voire à l'antichristianisme. Des personnages comme Volney et La Revellière-Lépeaux ont préparé, de longue date, ce qui constituera la grande fracture politique et religieuse : la Constitution civile du clergé. Leurs écrits, comme ceux d'André Collinet et de Mercier du Rocher, témoignent de cette profonde hostilité au catholicisme, avant et pendant la Révolution. On peut donc légitimement douter de l'existence d'un prétendu «dérapage» qui aurait contraint les acteurs de la première révolution à s'engager, comme malgré eux, dans le processus menant à la Constitution civile. [eng] Abstract : Long before 1789, the «bourgeois élites» in the Western part of France, had partly sided with the anticlerical, not to say antichristian movement. Public figures, such as Volney and La Revellière-Lépeaux, had prepared for a long time what was eventually to lead to the great political and religious break : the «constitution civile» of the clergy. Their writings, along with those of André Collinet and Mercier du Rocher attest to that deep-seated hostility against Catholicism in the years before and durintgthe Revolution. Thus can we aptly question the existence of a so-called «slippage» which might supposedly have led the protagonists of the first revolution to get involved against their own will, as it were, in the process leading to the setting-up of the «Constitution civile».

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  • Yves Durand, 1990. "Anticléricalisme et politique dans l'Ouest de la France à la fin du XVIIIe siècle," Histoire, économie & société, Programme National Persée, vol. 9(2), pages 243-258.
  • Handle: RePEc:prs:hiseco:hes_0752-5702_1990_num_9_2_2382
    DOI: 10.3406/hes.1990.2382
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