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The École Royale Militaire

Noble Education, Institutional Innovation, and Royal Charity, 1750-1788

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  1. Haroldo A. Guízar

    1. University of York, York, UK

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  • Ex?plores the Paris Ecole Militaire as an institution, arguing for its importance as a school that presented itself as a model for reform
  • Examines the importance of the school within the movement towards military professionalism as well as state-run secular education
  • Bridges the chasm between histories of education and histories of military reform and brings the two fields into dialogue

Part of the book series: War, Culture and Society, 1750–1850 (WCS)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. The Paris Ecole Royale Militaire: An Introduction

    • Haroldo A. Guízar
    Pages 1-32

  3. Financing and Administering the Ecole Militaire, 1750–1793: Its Origins, Evolution, and Demise

    • Haroldo A. Guízar
    Pages 33-78

  4. Debating the Ecole Militaire: The School as an Institutional Solution to the Predicaments of the Nobility

    • Haroldo A. Guízar
    Pages 79-120

  5. The Ecole Militaire’s Curriculum: Its Antecedents and Conception

    • Haroldo A. Guízar
    Pages 121-167

  6. Testing Theory at the Ecole Militaire: The Implementation and Modification of Curricular Concepts, 1753–1785

    • Haroldo A. Guízar
    Pages 169-216

  7. Beneficent Paternalism: The Ecole Militaire as a Charitable Institution

    • Haroldo A. Guízar
    Pages 217-256

  8. The Ecole Militaire: Some Conclusions

    • Haroldo A. Guízar
    Pages 257-263

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 265-301
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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 ofthe French Revolution.

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of York, York, UK

    Haroldo A. Guízar

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Haroldo Guízar is an independent scholar.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The École Royale Militaire

  • Book Subtitle: Noble Education, Institutional Innovation, and Royal Charity, 1750-1788

  • Authors: Haroldo A. Guízar

  • Series Title: War, Culture and Society, 1750–1850

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-45931-4

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: History, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2020

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-45930-7Published: 25 August 2020

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-45933-8Published: 25 August 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-45931-4Published: 24 August 2020

  • Series ISSN: 2634-6699

  • Series E-ISSN: 2634-6702

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVII, 301

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: History of France, History of Early Modern Europe, History of Military, History of Education

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