Of the good use of men of letters in the age of the République : About a speech drafted by Marie-Joseph Chénier
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Freedom of speech Homme de lettres Subsidies Revolution Men of letters Thermidor Marie-Joseph Chénier Freedom of speech Homme de lettres Subsidies Revolution Men of letters Thermidor Marie-Joseph ChénierSujets proches
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Gauthier Ambrus, « Of the good use of men of letters in the age of the République : About a speech drafted by Marie-Joseph Chénier », Dix-huitième siècle, ID : 10670/1.a02122...
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On 14 Nivôse an III (Jan. 2nd, 1795), the thermidorian Convention adopted, on the basis of a report written by Marie-Joseph Chénier, a series of measures in favour of scholars, artists and men of letters. The representatives meant to fill in the gap left by the disappearance of patronage and the abolition of the academies. But the decree did not just make up for an institutional state of emergency: in the eyes of its initiators, it was part of a larger process of political and cultural refashioning to which the Republic subjected itself as it emerged out of the Terror. After the shake-up of the world of letters under the Revolution, the reinvention of an ethos proper to writers was at the heart of the decree so as to restore the delicate equilibrium between private and public utterance.
