Van Kley, The Religious Origins of the French Revolution, 191-248.
1. You need to know the meaning / significance of: Jean-Baptiste Le Corgne de Launay, Rights of the Episcopacy over the Second Order; Jean-Geroges Lefranc de Pompignan; François Richer, On the Authority of the Clergy; Diderot. "Sacerdoce" (p. 243) refers to priesthood.
2. Note that van Kley states the subject of this chapter at the very end of the introduction (p. 195). Accordingly, you should keep the following question in mind as you read the chapter: How did public debate and appeals to public opinion conceptually disassemble absolutism?
3. In 1752, Gabriel-Nicolas Maultrot and Claude Mey published Apologie de tous les jugemens rendus par les tribunaus séculiers en France contre le schisme = Justification of all the Sentences etc. Does this book qualify as "radical Gallicanism"? Why or why not? Does it represent the paradox of judicial Jansenism: the "exaltation of the monarchy in relation to its clerical subjets, the better to undermine it with respect to its lay subjects" (203)?
4. How did judicial Jansenism differ from the 1765 Actes of the General Assembly of the Clergy?
5. Why did Le Paige's Lettres historiques dominate parlementary thinking in the 1750s and 1760s?
6. What constituted the chief political and religious vocabulary of the language of patriotism, of the parti dévot? Why does van Kley include a discussion of language in this chapter?
7. How did the parti dévot respond to Jansenist positions / accomplishments? What effect did its response have on the monarchy?
8. How did Enlightenment concepts find their way into the religious debates of the mid-eighteenth century? Did they radicalize the opposing positions?
9. What is the purpose of van Kley's discussion of Diderot at the end of the chapter?
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