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Article: Cosmopolitans, patriots, Jacobins, and Romantics.(Early Modernities)
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- June 22, 1998
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COSMOPOLITANISM AND THE EXTENDED COURT SYSTEM: THE LUMIERES IN FRANCE
Contrary to the common assumption that views the Enlightenment as a heterodox movement at a marked distance to the absolutist state, this essay will argue that the French Enlightenment can be described as an extension of absolutist court culture.
The absolutist state increased its control over territory and the population by expanding a network of taxation, administration, jurisdiction, and public services. Yet at the same time it supported the arts and sciences by grants, stipends, and appointments in order to stress the splendor of princely rule.(1) The most important institutional results ...