Louis Sébastien Mercier, Comment fonder la morale du peuple: Traité d’éducation pour l’avènement d’une société nouvelle

Geneviève Boucher; Michael J. Mulryan

Louis Sébastien Mercier, Comment fonder la morale du peuple: Traité d’éducation pour l’avènement d’une société nouvelle

Edited and translated by Geneviève Boucher and Michael J. Mulryan

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Louis-Sébastien Mercier (1740-1814), French playwright

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Critical Texts 69

Modern Humanities Research Association

21 August 2020

ISBN: 978-1-781889-05-3 (paperback) • RRP £14.99, $19.99, €17.99

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How might Republican France create the homme nouveau, or the ideal citizen, upon which the nascent republic placed its hopes? This is the question that Louis Sébastien Mercier (1740–1814) asks in this 1801 treatise on moral education, which has remained unedited until the present day. In this treatise, the polymath, known for his urban chronicles as well as his political engagement during the Revolution, tackles a question that pervades revolutionary discourse beginning in 1789: how can institutions be reformed in such a way that they can sow the seeds for the values of liberty, equality, and fraternity in the heart of every citizen? His moral philosophy, such as it is presented in this text, was largely inspired by German critical philosophy and Kant’s works in particular, which Mercier helped to make more widely known in France. This newly edited manuscript is thus particularly important for an understanding of both the author’s intellectual trajectory and the history of ideas in the long eighteenth century. Written at the beginning of the Consulate during Napoleon’s rise to power, this text offers scholars a retrospective look at the social and political upheaval that marked the last decades of the ancien régime and the revolutionary period. Its content reflects both Mercier’s personal experiences as a survivor of the Terror and the philosophical debates of his time.

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‘The editors are to be thanked for making this text available in this completely bilingual MHRA edition, with not only the main text in facing-page translation, but also the editors’ Introduction and notes.’ — Jessica Stacey, Modern Language Review 117.4, October 2022, 719-20 (full text online)

Contents:

viii-ix	Remerciements Geneviève Boucher, Michael J. Mulryan doi:10.2307/j.ctv1595n35.3	Cite
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x-xi	Note Sur Le Texte Geneviève Boucher, Michael J. Mulryan doi:10.2307/j.ctv1595n35.4	Cite
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2-36	Introduction Geneviève Boucher, Michael J. Mulryan doi:10.2307/j.ctv1595n35.5	Cite
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38-45	1. Introduction: La Morale Du Peuple À L’aube D’une Ère Nouvelle Geneviève Boucher, Michael J. Mulryan doi:10.2307/j.ctv1595n35.6	Cite
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46-69	2. La moralité: définition, principes et notions Geneviève Boucher, Michael J. Mulryan doi:10.2307/j.ctv1595n35.7	Cite
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70-81	3. Moyens de faire acquérir à la jeunesse des lumières morales Geneviève Boucher, Michael J. Mulryan doi:10.2307/j.ctv1595n35.8	Cite
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82-107	4. Principes du droit et religion morale Geneviève Boucher, Michael J. Mulryan doi:10.2307/j.ctv1595n35.9	Cite
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108-125	5. Moyens pour développer la discipline morale Geneviève Boucher, Michael J. Mulryan doi:10.2307/j.ctv1595n35.10	Cite
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126-135	6. Le sentiment du beau et du sublime Geneviève Boucher, Michael J. Mulryan doi:10.2307/j.ctv1595n35.11	Cite
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136-151	7. Le rôle des arts et des fêtes dans l’éducation morale Geneviève Boucher, Michael J. Mulryan doi:10.2307/j.ctv1595n35.12	Cite
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152-161	8. L’éducation des filles et les bienfaits d’une éducation morale Geneviève Boucher, Michael J. Mulryan doi:10.2307/j.ctv1595n35.13	Cite
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162-167	9. La philosophie critique allemande dans ses rapports à l’éducation morale Geneviève Boucher, Michael J. Mulryan doi:10.2307/j.ctv1595n35.14	Cite
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168-177	10. Moyens pour développer les lumières morales et la discipline morale chez les adultes Geneviève Boucher, Michael J. Mulryan doi:10.2307/j.ctv1595n35.15	Cite
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178-201	11. Moyens efficaces pour combattre les préjugés moraux et religieux Geneviève Boucher, Michael J. Mulryan doi:10.2307/j.ctv1595n35.16	Cite
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202-210	12. Comment écarter les tentations de l’immoralité Geneviève Boucher, Michael J. Mulryan doi:10.2307/j.ctv1595n35.17	Cite
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211-214	Bibliographie Geneviève Boucher, Michael J. Mulryan doi:10.2307/j.ctv1595n35.18	Cite
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Edited, translated by Geneviève Boucher, and Michael J. Mulryan, Louis Sébastien Mercier, Comment fonder la morale du peuple: Traité d’éducation pour l’avènement d’une société nouvelle, Critical Texts, 69 (MHRA, 2020)

First footnote reference: ³⁵ Louis Sébastien Mercier, Comment fonder la morale du peuple: Traité d’éducation pour l’avènement d’une société nouvelle, edited and translated by Geneviève Boucher and Michael J. Mulryan, Critical Texts, 69 (MHRA, 2020), p. 21.

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Edited, translated by Geneviève Boucher, and Michael J. Mulryan. 2020. Louis Sébastien Mercier, Comment fonder la morale du peuple: Traité d’éducation pour l’avènement d’une société nouvelle, Critical Texts, 69 (MHRA)

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