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The Ecole Royale Militaire - Noble Education, Institutional Innovation, and Royal Charity, 1750-1788 (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
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The Ecole Royale Militaire - Noble Education, Institutional Innovation, and Royal Charity, 1750-1788 (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
Series: War, Culture and Society, 1750-1850
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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.
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