Court Society, Public Sphere and Political Life before the French Revolution. Results of the ERC Project Pamphlets and Patrons
March 6th 2026 | 14:00-18:00 Uhr | Universität Trier | Raum A 9/10
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: 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 and Datasets
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 Wrote the “Histoire des Deux Indes”? Questioning Diderot’s Authorship
Antonina Martynenko and Damien Tricoire
17:00-17:10: DFG Project Proposal
STAR: A New Light on Patriot Writers and Anonymous Pamphlets before the French Revolution
Benoît Carré, Antonina Martynenko and Damien Tricoire
17:10-17:20: DFG Project Proposal
The Insinuations du Châtelet as a Gateway to the Analysis of 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
