The End of an Élite The French Bishops and the Coming of the Revolution 1786-1790

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ISBN: 9780198202844 | 0198202849
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 12/24/1992

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This is the first scholarly study in English of the bishops of the French church at the outbreak of the French Revolution. Nigel Aston explores the role of the episcopate in national and provincial politics in the last years of the ancien regime and the part played by the bishops in the early, critical stages of the Revolution. This is an intensively researched and immensely readable analysis of an elite with an elite, and its passing.

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Introduction	p. 1
An Apostolic Elite: The Bishops of the French Church at the end of the Ancien Regime	p. 5
The Bishops, Political Reform and Public Administration	p. 30
The Bishops and the First Assembly of Notables, Spring 1787	p. 46
A Clerical Minister: Brienne, the Bishops, and the Local Assemblies	p. 67
The Fall of Brienne	p. 89
Necker, the Clergy, and 'Patriotism'	p. 117
Bishops versus Cures: Clerical Elections to the Estates-General, Spring 1789	p. 134
The End of the First Estate: The Bishops and the Estates-General, May-July 1789	p. 157
The Failure of Patriotism: The Bishops in the National Assembly, July-September 1789	p. 182
The Bishops outside the Assembly and the New Political Order, 1789-1790	p. 203
The Constitutionalists on the Defensive, Winter 1789-1790	p. 212
The Bishops and the Civil Constitution, 1790	p. 231
Appendix 1. Map of the Bishoprics of France, 1789	p. 247
Appendix 2. The Archbishops and Bishops of France in 1789 Listed by Province	p. 250
Appendix 3. Episcopal Membership of the Provincial Assemblies, 1787-1788	p. 266
Appendix 4. Prelates Elected to the Estates-General, May 1789	p. 268
Appendix 5. Summary of Careers of the Archbishops and Bishops of the French Church after the Outbreak of the Revolution, Arranged According to Province	p. 269
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