Publication Date
12-2023
Date of Final Oral Examination (Defense)
October 2023
Type of Culminating Activity
Thesis
Degree Title
Master of Arts in History
Department Filter
History
Department
History
Supervisory Committee Chair
Erik Hadley, Ph.D.
Supervisory Committee Member
Raymond Krohn, Ph.D.
Supervisory Committee Member
Lisa McClain, Ph.D.
Abstract
The landscape of secondary education before the French Revolution has not yet been studied as a potential cause of, and factor in, the coming Revolution. After the Jesuits were expelled from France in 1763, their secondary schools—the collèges—were confiscated by the government. This government coalition of the royal monarchy and the law courts of France, known as the parlements, took over the schools and ran them as the “Interim” system. Despite previous historiography which stresses the continuity of these systems, my research has found that there were deep changes that happened in both the curriculum and the teachers of the Interim schools. These changes in turn had an impact on the revolutionary generation, who began school at the exact time the Interim system was implemented. These claims are backed up by contemporaries of the French Revolution, who identified the Interim schools as the “nurseries of republicans”—the origins of the Revolution.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.18122/td.2187.boisestate
Recommended Citation
Parker, Kaci, "The “Nurseries of Republicans”: French Collèges After the Jesuit Expulsion, 1763-1793" (2023). Boise State University Theses and Dissertations. 2187.
https://doi.org/10.18122/td.2187.boisestate