Michael's source and annotated bibliography

Source:
Unfortunately, I don't have a key primary source in English, but perhaps some of you would like to practice your French :) I will give a brief overview of what it says when we meet.
Link: https://frda.stanford.edu/en/catalog/xx284sn7328_00_0267
I am most interested in the section marked "Premiere Partie," pages 263-265.



Annotated Bibliography

Available sources:

Primary Sources/Archival (some are available online through the BNF's Gallica database)

Bossuet, Jacques-Benigne. Declaration des Qautre Articles. Paris, 1682.

This declaration, often known in anglophone scholarship as the Gallican Declaration, was an act of the 1682 Clerical Assembly that promulgated Gallicanism, or state control over the church, in France. This text serves as the root of many political debates within the church over the course of the eighteenth century.

Fauchet, Claude. Discours aux vainqueurs de la Bastille à leur Assemblée générale, tenue dans l'Église des Quinze-Vingt. Paris, 1790.

Here, Fauchet addresses his fellow revolutionaries from the Charge on the Bastille. This source is useful on two fronts - it provides Fauchet’s account from the Charge, which he claims to have led, and it also charts out his image of a Republic, which at this point still had not been established.

La Bouche de der. Paris: La Cercle Social, 1790.

Fauchet was the editor and primary contributor to this journal, which was published by the Cercle Social, a political club that he had joined. Many issues of the journal will be important for my thesis, as they contain essays where Fauchet responds to various passages in Rousseau.

Nouvelles Ecclesiastiques. Paris: Unkown publisher, 1760.

Nouvelles Ecclesiastiques was a popular, underground Jansenist publication that would have been familiar (and perhaps, infamous) to anyone in clerical circles in Paris during the mid-eighteenth century. While much of the publication consists of invective directed against the Jesuits, it also articulates the Jansenist view toward contemporary debates and literature on theology and politics, which would shape Fauchet’s thinking prior to 1789.

Cahier des doleances du clergé de Paris. Paris: 1789.

**This is the source that I have shared above**

This list of grievances was written collectively by the Paris clergy on the eve of the Revolution. While they don’t represent the views of individual authors, they do give a window into what was on the mind of a typical priest in the runup to the Revolution. This source is available through the BNF’s online Gallica database.

Secondary sources:

Van Kley, Dale. The Religious Origins of the French Revolution. New Haven: Yale

University Press, 1996.

I anticipate this source playing a key role in the chapter - it provides a good survey of the interplay between religious discourse and politics in the eighteenth century. The text focuses especially on the conflict between the Jesuits, Jansenists, and the state.

Byrnes, Joseph. Priests of the French Revolution. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania

State University Press, 2014.

This text proves useful on two fronts - to begin with, it has a chapter on Fauchet, the eventual subject of my thesis. More immediately, it also provides an overview of the education and formation of Gregoire and Sieyes, two other French clerical revolutionaries, giving me a sense of the intellectual world that these revolutionary priests inhabited.

Skinner, Quentin. The Foundations of Modern Political Thought, vol. 2. Cambridge:

Cambridge University Press, 1978.

I’m interested in this work specifically for its overview of conciliarism. Conciliarism was a proto form of French constitutionalism closely associated with Jansenism, and was a key political concept within the church by Fauchet’s time.

Brockiss, LW. French Higher Education in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries.

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987.

Brockliss’ survey of higher education extends beyond the seminary, but he includes a detailed chapter on theological education during my era of study. The chapter focuses especially on how political considerations impacted seminary curriculum, which will be a key point in my paper.

Sepinwall, Alyssa Goldstein. The Abbé Grégoire and the French Revolution. Berkeley: The

University of California Press, 2005.

This biography provides a good model of what I want to accomplish with my broader thesis. Moreover, it’s first chapters give a good account of Gregoire’s intellectual formation, along with his experience of the church’s class divide. This perspective will provide material for my owns study on the climate and divides within the contemporary church.

McManners, John. The French Revolution and the Church. New York: Harper & Row,

1970.

This book provides a history of the Church over the course of the French Revolution, arguing that the ecclesiastical history and debates helped guide the course of the Revolution. This argument will certainly be helpful to the overall thesis, though unlike Van Kley’s text, it provides a less comprehensive survey of the pre-revolutionary church.

Tackett, Timothy. Becoming a Revolutionary. Princeton: Princeton University Press,

1996.

This book chronicles the intellectual formation of Revolutionary members of the Estates-General and National Assembly. While the bulk of this text does not focus on clerics, it still nonetheless accomplishes a very similar task as my thesis on a more macro level - identifying what ideas and influences led these men to take part in such a radical historical moment.

Wishlist sources:

Fauchet, Claude. Del la religion nationale. Paris, 1789.

This source belongs on the wishlist in the sense that I reviewed it in Paris but it is not available here in the United States. However, it will be a central document for my thesis - it is a three hundred page book where Fauchet merges Jansenist theology with Enlightenment philosophy, which is an incredibly unique intellectual move.

Cahiers des doleances from Bourges

I’ve been unable thus far to track down copies of the Cahiers des Doleances submitted by the clergy of Bourges, where Fauchet was temporarily stationed as a parish priest. These would be a wonderful picture of the theological and political questions that Fauchet would have certainly encountered.

Le Paige, Louis-Adrien. Lettres historiques sur les fonctions essentielles du parlement,

sur le droit des pairs, et sur les loix fodementales du royaume. Amsterdam: 1753.

Le Paige was a dominant force within Jansenist political thought. His book shaped political debates within the French church during the 1760s, and while Van Kley provides a brief outline, I would like to gain access to the original text.

Acts of the 1765 clerical assembly.

Here the problem is trying to find what this text would be titled in databases on archives. However, obtaining access to it would be useful - it acted as a counterpoint to Gallicanism in ecclesiastical debate, declaring the spiritual independence of the church from the state.

Letters between the two Marquis de Choiseul.

Fauchet served as a tutor to one of the Marquis, whose brother was the French foreign minister. Understanding the political thought of these two figures would go a long way in giving me an insight to the political milieu Fauchet came from.