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AbstractThis article takes a fresh look at Southey's radical poetry of the 1790s in order to assess Southey's mobilization of the tropes of political violence and atrocity. In the repressive antijacobin climate of the mid to late 1790s, radicalism was frequently associated with the sensational imagery of unbridled popular violence and regicide, but such propaganda misrepresented the ways in which radical authors like Southey used their texts precisely to explore and negotiate the problem of “justified” violence. The two texts I focus on are Wat Tyler and Joan of Arc, both of which imagine the bloody overthrow and destruction of a violent British state. But I show that beneath such a sensational vision (which may seem to explain why Wat Tyler was not published) is a more complex and coded engagement with the contemporaneous debate about politics, violence and democracy, including issues such as plebeian chivalry, heroic martyrdom, divine punishment, and state terror. I also argue that the furore surrounding the radical pirating of Wat Tyler in the postwar period overlooked the fact that the text offers the reader various political fantasies and discourses of violence ranging from regicide to patriarchal self-defence, sacrificial defiance and statesmanlike moral reflection. I hope to show, therefore, that a more nuanced historicist approach to Southey's early poetry in fact yields a more polysemic hermeneutics than has been appreciated by critics from the Romantic period to the present.
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ABSTRACTThis article proposes to evaluate the quality of the censuses of the Canadian population carried out between 1685 and 1739. Analysis of the internal coherence of these documents suggests that certain categories of the population were under-recorded, for example, women in the 17th century and young boys in the 18th century. In order to determine the extent of under-enumeration, the present study compares the size of the recorded population to the number of people present at the time of census-taking, as estimated by the technique of cumulated natural increase. The results of this comparison suggest that the population is under-recorded in all the censuses. However, with an average rate of omission of a little more than 10%, these documents are nonetheless, for the pre-statistical era, of a high enough quality to make their use worthwhile.
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Keywords: tourisme, patrimoine, banlieue, greeters, métropole parisienne, Boulogne-Billancourt, ville moderne
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Is it possible to follow a rumour that circulated in Québec in the years between 1770 and 1790? Such is the proposal of the present study that examines certain rumours according to which France wanted to win back Canada. Among the sources investigated: the correspondence of a nun (Marie-Catherine Juchereau-Duchesnay), the testimony of two notaries (Jean-Baptiste Badeaux and Simon Sanguinet), a propaganda brochure (attributed to François Baby), and a letter forged by George Washington and the Marquis de Lafayette. By placing the production and circulation of these rumours in their historical context in the province, the study attempts to understand the state of mind of the rural population at the time of the American war of independence and during the years that followed. This study of reconquest imaginary constitutes a contribution to research on the rumour and to the history of the Canadian state of mind by way of analysis of verbal traces found in the archives.
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AbstractQuébec and France adopted different normative concepts of the relationships between religion and school, particularly with regards to the question of teaching religions, which was on the agenda in both societies simultaneously. France, marked by its scholastic secularism for over a century, is more fearful about incorporating education on religions into the school curriculum. Québec secularized its school system a century later, but defined secularism as compatible with teaching ethics and the understanding of the world's religious and secular visions. Although they sometimes use similar terms, such as tolerance and dialogue, the French and Québec models of teaching religion generate different effects when it comes to religious pluralism in the school arena. France tends to favour the concept of the school as a sanctuary, cut off from the influences of civil society, while Québec wants to increase students' critical knowledge about what goes on outside the school in terms of religion. Nevertheless, on both sides of the Atlantic, religion is still a possible obstacle to any consensus on school secularism.