Organiser: Dr. Simon Dagenais
Postcode: 54296
City: Trier
Country: Deutschland
Event format: Hybrid event
Date: 06.03.2026
Website: https://papa.uni-trier.de/2026/01/12/court-society-public-sphere/
Workshop: Court Society, Public Sphere and Political Life before the French Revolution. Results of the ERC Project Pamphlets and Patrons, which will be held in Trier (Germany) and online on March 6th, from 14:00 to 18:00 CET (9:00 to 11:00 EDT).
Court Society, Public Sphere and Political Life before the French Revolution. Results of the ERC Project Pamphlets and Patrons
Workshop: Court Society, Public Sphere and Political Life before the French Revolution. Results of the ERC Project Pamphlets and Patrons, which will be held in Trier (Germany) and online on March 6th, from 14:00 to 18:00 CET (9:00 to 11:00 EDT).
Programme
14:00–14:10 Introduction: Pamphlets and Patrons: Aims and Stakes of a Pluriannual Research Project (Damien Tricoire)
14:10–14:20 Upcoming Monograph: Building the City of God. Rigorist-Augustinian Networks in Early Modern Languedoc (Nele Dentinger)
14:20–14:30 Upcoming Monograph: A French Oligarch: The Political Career of the Prince of Conti (1717–1776) (Simon Dagenais)
14:30–14:50 Upcoming Monograph: The Old Regime and the Revolution: A New Vision of the Political Origins of the French Revolution (Benoît Carré and Damien Tricoire)
14:50–15:10 Discussion
15:10–15:20 Break
15:20–15:30 Upcoming Monograph: Monsieur de Voltaire: Court Society and the Making of the French Enlightenment (Damien Tricoire)
15:30–15:40 Upcoming Special Issue of French History: The Court and the Politics of Print (Benoît Carré and Damien Tricoire)
15:40–15:50 Upcoming Special Issue of the Bulletin du Centre de Recherche du Château de Versailles (CRCV):The House of France: A Socio-Political Object to Reconsider the End of the French Monarchy (Benoît Carré)
15:50–16:20 Discussion
16:20–16:40 Break
16:40–16:50 Database: Power and the Public Sphere: A New Tool to Explore the Cultural History of Eighteenth-Century France (Benoît Carré and Simon Dagenais)
16:50–17:00 Article: Who Has Written the “Histoire des Deux Indes”? Questioning Diderot’s Authorship (Antonina Martynenko and Damien Tricoire)
17:00–17:10 DFG Project Proposal: A New Light on Patriot Writers and Anonymous Pamphlets before the French Revolution: The STAR DFG Project (Benoît Carré, Antonina Martynenko and Damien Tricoire)
17:10–17:20 DFG Project Proposal:The Insinuations du Châtelet as a Gateway to Analyzing Early Modern Society (Simon Dagenais and Damien Tricoire)
17:20–17:35 Conclusion: The Historiographical Impact of the Pamphlets and Patrons Project (Damien Tricoire)
17:35–18:00 General Discussion
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