thesis

Les remontrances du parlement de Navarre au XVIIIe siècle : édition critique et essai sur une culture politique en province au siècle des lumières

Defense date:

Jan. 1, 1996

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Institution:

Pau

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Abstract EN:

In the hard and long opposition that parliaments engaged against the royal authority in the xviiith century, the one established in pau and called navarre parliament (created in 1620) features original characteristics. While its homologues undermined the bases of absolutism by over-using daring speeches and revolutionary terms as constitution, citizen, nation,. . . For the sake of the liberties that protected their economic, political and social privileges, the magistrates of pau, while protesting against the administrative and tax pressures of the monarchy, used a speech relatively conservative and loyalist. Being the birthplace of the bourbons dynasty, the provinces depending on pau court, were sentimentally and politically bound to the monarchy of union by the allegiance they swore at each accession to the throne so as to protect their liberties and immunities. It's in the name of such a guarantee that the parliamentary opposition in bearn didn't contribute to found the prerevolutionary speech steeped in the "lumieres" philosophy as well as they voluntarily and ideologically remained conservative.

Abstract FR:

Dans la dure et longue opposition que les parlements ont engagee contre le pouvoir royal au xviiie siecle, celui de navarre seant a pau (cree lors de l'edit d'union de 1620), presente des caracteristiques tres originales. Alors que ses confreres ont sape les bases de l'absolutisme en multipliant les discours audacieux, abusant des termes "revolutionnaires" de constitution, citoyen, nation,. . . Au nom des libertes qui garantissaient leurs privileges economiques, politiques et sociaux, les magistrats palois, tout en protestant contre les pressions administratives et fiscales de la monarchie, ont vehicule un discours relativement prudent et loyaliste. Berceau de la dynastie des bourbons, les provinces du ressort de la cour de pau furent liees affectivement et politiquement a la monarchie par un serment prete a chaque avenement et garantissant leurs libertes et immunites. C'est au nom de cette garantie que l'opposition parlementaire en bearn ne contribua pas a fonder le discours prerevolutionnaire nourri de la philosophie des lumieres et resta volontairement et ideologiquement conservateur.