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Genevie`ve, 167 Baczko, Bronisław, 97À9, 103, 121 Acade´mie Franc¸aise, 26, 55À60, 211; production Baker, Keith, 11, 104 of dictionaries by, 57, 115; Villemain’s Balzac, Honore´ de, 141, 154 position in, 135.See also Dictionnaire de Barante, Prosper de, 130 l’Acade´mie Franc¸aise Barre`s, Maurice, 177 Adorno, Theodor, 17, 34, 201 Barruel, Augustin, 111À12, 154 advent narratives, 4À5, 16, 38, 50 Barthes, Roland, 7; on death of historical Alice et Valcour (Sade), 69 narrative, 75À8; on ‘linguistic turn’ of Althusser, Louis, 82; on bourgeois ideology of understanding, 99À100; on literature as a universality, 70; on ideology, 113, 211, 214; pedagogical object, 155; on tautology of on words as instruments of knowledge, literature, 112; on Voltaire, 69 60 Bastille Day, 123 American Revolution, 14 Baudelaire, Charles, 135À6, 154 L’An 2440 (Mercier), 69, 187À8, 189 Bauman, Zygmunt, 17 anachronism in historical understanding, 28 Bayle, Pierre, 3, 37 Ancien Re´gime, 102 Beaumarchais, Pierre de, 167 Anderson, Benedict, 125, 177, 222 Bellay, Joachim du, 186 Annales d’histoire´ economique et politique journal, Ben-Amos, Avner, 148 6, 200, 204 Benjamin, Walter, 203 L’Anne´e litte´raire (ed. Fre´ron), 16 Benrekassa, Georges, 83, 84, 95, 217, 218 “An Answer to the Question: ‘What is Berry, Charles Ferdinand, duc de, 128 Enlightenment’” (Kant), 19À22 “La Bibliothe`que des histoires” series “Les Antiquite´s de Rome” (Bellay), 186 (ed. Nora), 6 anti-Semitism, 74, 178 bicentennial of the French Revolution, Apollo Belvedere statue, 191À2 10À12, 174 archeology, 182À3, 229 Bird’s-eye View of the Bank of England, A Arie`s, Philippe, 199 (Gandy), 192 Aron, Raymond, 201 Blanc, Louis, 154 L’Art du XVIIIe sie`cle (Goncourt and Bloch, Marc, 6 Goncourt), 143 Boileau, Nicolas, 159À60 Asse´zat, Jules, 157 Bossuet, Jacques-Be´nigne, 132, 159À60, 173; Aukfla¨rung, 13 criticism by Voltaire of, 165; eulogies auteur, 57 by, 77; sacred histories of, 85À6; authors, 55, 57; agency of, 162À3, 228; Sainte-Beuve’s portrayal of, 139 economic aspects of, 64, 163, 215; Boucher, Franc¸ois, 143 Foucault’s views of, 126, 153, 162;of Bougainville, Louis-Antoine de, 62 history, see historical narrative during Bourdieu, Pierre, 57À8 the Enlightenment; outsider roles of, 62, Brucker, Johann Jakob, 82, 83 63, 215.See also constructing the Brunetie`re, Ferdinand: literary history by, 130, philosophe; Voltaire 159; views on La Harpe of, 111, 157 autobiography, 26 Bu¨chner, Ludwig, 151À2 248 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-17529-6 - The Enlightenment Past: Reconstructing Eighteenth-Century French thought Daniel Brewer Index More information Index 249 Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc de: Histoire bicentennial of the Revolution, 10À12, 174; naturelle of, 24, 42; La Harpe’s view of, 118; centennial celebrations of Voltaire and philosophy of history of, 42; Villemain’s Rousseau, 169, 174; centennial of the portrayal of, 133 Revolution, 151, 174; Certeau on writing Burke, Edmund, 101 about the dead, 149; Diderot’s belated posterity, 150À2; eulogies for Enlightenment Cabanis, Georges, 115 figures, 77, 75À8, 79À80;legitimizing Les Cacouacs (Palissot), 16 purpose of, 151; linking of the present with Candide (Voltaire), 39, 49, 68 the past of, 149À51;Nora’sLieux de me´moire Canguilhem, Georges, 37 project, 174À7, 204À5; nostalgia in, 205; Cartesianism: philosophical idealism of, 50À2; positivist views of republican sponsors of, systematic doubt of, 36À8.See also 151À2; production of knowledge through, Descartes, Rene´ 176; recalling the Revolution in, 10À12, 103, Caruth, Cathy, 176À7 126, 151, 174; Voltaire’s iconic afterlife, 162, Casanova, Giovanni Giacomo, 166 166À71, 173À4 Cassirer, Ernst, 4, 43À8; critiques of, 44À6; Commune, 123, 174 intellectual climate of, 44, 46À7, 212; Compagnon, Antoine, 158, 159 linkage of present and past traditions of, Comte, Auguste, 151, 157 43À4, 46; neo-Kantian view of the Condillac, Etienne Bonnot de, 82; La Harpe’s Enlightenment of, 44; on portrait of mind, critique of, 117, 118; narrative of modern 43; three-part narrative structure of, 44 knowledge of, 25; on origins of the Castres, Antoine Sabatier de, 152 Enlightenment, 49; response to Cate´chisme positiviste (Comte), 151 Montesquieu of, 81; sensationalism of, 3, Catholic Church: Enlightenment’s response to, 34, 51 132; La Harpe’s defense of, 113; legal Condorcet, Marie-Jean Caritat de, 50, 151; separation of church and state, 173; narrative of inevitable progress by, 42, response to Napoleon’s educational 49À50; narrative of modern knowledge of, reforms by, 128À9, 134; response to 25À7; nineteenth-century reception of, 216; Voltaire by, 168À71, 172; Voltaire’s view of publishing of Voltaire by, 167; Vie de sacred history, 168.See also religion Voltaire, 168 Causeries du lundi column (Sainte-Beuve), 137, Les Confessions (Rousseau), 4, 107, 108; imagined 140, 142 readers of, 68; personal style of, 63;on Caylus, Anne-Claude-Philippe, 229 ruins, 184, 229 Certeau, Michel de: on the historiographical Confessions d’un enfant du sie`cle (Musset), 170 operation, 104; on intellectual history, 7À8; Conside´rations sur les causes de la grandeur des on link between past and present of Romans et de leur de´cadence (Montesquieu), historiography, 225; on writing about the 84À5, 91, 201 dead, 149 Conside´rations sur les mœurs (Duclos), 24 Challes, Robert, 189 Constant, Benjamin, 82, 130 Chartier, Roger: on the limits of new history, 7; constructing the philosophe, 54À72; on the link between Enlightenment and d’Alembert’s homme de lettres, 41À8, Revolution, 105; on traditional teleological 52À4, 213; Diderot’s Moi and Lui, 71À2, narrative, 11À12, 104 152, 216; Diderot’s views of the eclectic, 77, Chateaubriand, Franc¸ois-Rene´ de: on French 82, 217; Dieckmann’s historical context of, heritage of ruins, 195; membership in 67; Dumarsais’s views on, 58À61; early Sainte-Beuve’s literary pantheon of, 139; definitions and portrayals of, 58À60; Restoration-era views of, 154;on economic aspects of, 64, 66; the honneˆte seventeenth-century Christianity, 227; tour homme, 65À7; imagined freedom from of Rome by, 188 history of, 68; modern role of the public Che´nier, Andre´-Marie de, 139 intellectual, 72À4, 78; new social Cle´risseau, Charles-Louis, 189 behavior of, 56À7, 61À4; new ways of Code de la nature (Morelly), 68, 153 knowing of, 60À3; production through Colbert, Jean-Baptiste, 165 official institutions of, 55À60, 64; Come´die Franc¸aise, 164 self-representation of, 63; utopian commemorative activities, 148À9, 161, 225; imaginings of, 67À72 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-17529-6 - The Enlightenment Past: Reconstructing Eighteenth-Century French thought Daniel Brewer Index More information 250 Index constructing the ruin, 179À99; archeological 126À7; imagined communities of nations excavations of Herculaneum, in, 125, 172À3, 222; linkage of past with 182À3, 229;De´sert de Retz folly house, 185; present in, 149À51, 166À71; literature and Diderot on, 186À7, 230; Encyclope´die on literary history in, see literature and literary meaning and value of, 182À4, 229; Holland history; Louis XIV’s creation of the state, House Library image, 179À82; imaginary 131; memory projects in, 123, 124À7, 139, ruins, 185À8, 229; Maleuvre on the 156, 174À7, 197; national citizenship, 126, historicity of museums, 194À5; as part of 136; political use of the Enlightenment in, narrative of progress, 184; portrayal through 112À18, 130, 131À3, 140, 155, 158, 168À71, travel writing, 195À9; Robert’s imagery of, 219, 226; positivism of, 151À2; Sainte- 188À95; Romantic versions of, 195;as Beuve’s journalistic criticism, 136À46; storehouse of knowledge for the future, 183, Voltaire’s iconic afterlife in, 162, 166À71 187À8, 189, 230; temporal matrix offered crisis of French historiography, 6À12, 201; by, 179; the trope of the monument, 183; Annales’s new economic focus, 6; Barthes’s Volney’s Les Ruines, 195À9 narratological analysis, 7; Certeau’s contestatory discourses of the Enlightenment, historical objects, 7À8; debates about the see resistance to the Enlightenment Revolution, 10À12; Foucault’s genealogical contextually determined views of the history, 9À10; Furet’s political semiotics, Enlightenment, 51, 100; Cassirer’s 11; mentalite´, 6À7, 148; new history, 6À7; Germany of the 1930s, 44, 46À7, 212; post-Enlightenment era, see post- gender contexts, 45; historicity of Enlightenment thought; praxis of history, Montesquieu’s writing, 93À6; links 8À10; traditional practices, 6, 8À9 between present and past, see temporal Critique of Pure Reason (Kant), 20À1 perspectives of Enlightenment critique: Descartes’s view of critical reflection, historiography; political contexts of 36À8; Foucault’s cautions of perspective, revolutionary change, 30; politicized 22; Kant’s views of reason, 20À1, 24 discourse of literary history, 112À18, 130, Critiques (Kant), 44 131À3, 140, 155, 158, 219, 226; role of cultural history, see sociocultural history situated knowledge in, 15À16, 41À3, 48, 211; cultural production in the Enlightenment: Sainte-Beuve’s biographical method of development of the intellectual field in, literary criticism, 137À9; Sainte-Beuve’s 57À8; emergence of literature in, 57; prism of political upheaval, 139, 140; social paradigm of sociability