Van Kley, The Religious Origins of the French Revolution, 249-302.
Note that van Kley states the argument of this chapter in the final paragraph of the introduction (p. 253). How well does he prove his argument?
1. You need to know the meaning / significance of: Edict of December [1770], patriot party, Matthieu-François Pidansat de Mairobert, synallagmatic contract (p. 252: Look it up! I did.), Maxims of French Public Law = Maximes, Guillaume-Chrétien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes, Joseph d'Hémery, Siménon-Prosper Hardy, velleity, Jacob-Nicola Moreau, Simon-Henri Linguet, Turgot. "Embastilled" (p. 269) means "imprisoned in the Bastille."
2. How did the patriotic pamphlets of the 1770s envision the French constitution? In what respects did they differ from each other?
3. What counts as Jansenist influence in these pamphlets? Why is that "in rebaptizing itself as the patriot party, the Jansenist party became at once more and less than it had been" (268)?
4. How were patriotic pamphlets distributed? Were the police successful in breaking up the distribution networks?
5. "Why would Jansenists have run the risk of compromising their religious identity by throwing themselves body and soul into a movement so apparaently devoid of religious meaning as a political protest against Maupeou's constitutional coup?" (p. 274)
6. What constituted "acts of schism"? Why were they called this?
7. How did the parti dévot fight Jansenism and support Maupeou?
8. What were the main themes of the Maupeou minstry's pamphlets? In what respects did they differ from each other? What counts as dévot influence in these pamphlets?
9. Why is the final section of the chapter entitled "A Monarchy in Search of an Identity?" Why did the resacralization of the monarchy not occur under Louis XVI? What explains the rapprochement between the parlements and the bishops and the dissociation between the parlements and the Jansenists in his reign?
10. In what ways did the Enlightenment converge with the thinking of the Jansenists and of the parti dévot? Consider information from the entire chapter to answer this question. What is the significance of the chapter's title?
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