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Author Guízar, Haroldo A., author

Title The École Royale Militaire : noble education, institutional innovation, and royal charity, 1750-1788 / Haroldo A. Guízar
Edition 1st ed
Published Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2020

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations (colour)
Series War, culture and society, 1750-1850
War, culture and society, 1750-1850.
Contents 1. Financing and Administering the Ecole Militaire: Its Origins, Evolution and Demise, 1750-1793 -- 2. Debating Socio-Military Reform: The Defence of the Ecole Militaire as an Institutional Solution to the Predicaments of the Nobility -- 3. The École Militaires Curriculum -- Its Antecedents and Conception -- 4. Testing Theory at the Ecole Militaire: The Implementation and Modification of Curricular Concepts, 1753-1785 -- 5. Beneficent Paternalism: The Ecole Militaire as a Charitable Institution
Summary 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 Encyclopédie 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 Ségur decree, often described as a notable cause of the French Revolution
Notes 1. The Paris Ecole Royale Militaire: An Introduction2. Financing and Administering the Ecole militaire, 1750-1793: Its Origins, Evolution and Demise3. Debating the Ecole Militaire: The School as an Institutional Solution to the Predicaments of the Nobility4. The Ecole Militaire's Curriculum: Its Antecedents and Conception5. Testing Theory at the Ecole Militaire: The Implementation and Modification of Curricular Concepts, 1753-17856. Beneficent Paternalism: The Ecole militaire as a Charitable Institution7. The Ecole Militaire: Some conclusions
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject École royale militaire (Paris, France) -- History
SUBJECT École royale militaire (Paris, France) fast
Subject Military education -- France -- Paris -- History -- 18th century
Education and state -- France -- Paris -- History -- 18th century
Education and state
Military education
France -- Paris
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9783030459314
3030459314