The École Royale Militaire : noble education, institutional innovation, and royal charity, 1750-1788
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The École Royale Militaire : noble education, institutional innovation, and royal charity, 1750-1788
(War, culture and society, 1750-1850)
Palgrave Macmillan, c2020
- : [hbk.]
Available at 2 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Selected bibliography: p. 271-287
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book explores the Paris Ecole Militaire as an institution, arguing for its importance as a school that presented itself as a model for reform during a key moment in the movement towards military professionalism as well as state-run secular education. The school is distinguished for being an Enlightenment project, one of its founders publishing an article on it in the Encyclopedie in 1755. Its curriculum broke completely with the Latin pedagogy of the dominant Jesuit system, while adapting the legacy of seventeenth-century riding academies. Its status touches on the nature of absolutism, as it was conceived to glorify the Bourbon dynasty in a similar way to the girls' school at Saint Cyr and the Invalides. It was also a dispensary of royal charity calculated to ally the nobility more closely to royal interests through military service. In the army, its proofs of nobility were the model for the much debated 1781 Segur decree, often described as a notable cause of the French Revolution.
Table of Contents
1. The Paris Ecole Royale Militaire: An Introduction2. Financing and Administering the Ecole militaire, 1750-1793: Its Origins, Evolution and Demise3. Debating the Ecole Militaire: The School as an Institutional Solution to the Predicaments of the Nobility4. The Ecole Militaire's Curriculum: Its Antecedents and Conception5. Testing Theory at the Ecole Militaire: The Implementation and Modification of Curricular Concepts, 1753-17856. Beneficent Paternalism: The Ecole militaire as a Charitable Institution7. The Ecole Militaire: Some conclusions
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