The Crisis of the Absolute Monarchy:
An international conference in honour of Professor William Doyle, FBA
The British Academy 14-15 December 2009
Venue: The British Academy 10 Carlton House Terrace
London, SW1Y 5AH
The aim of this conference is to consider the political crisis confronting the absolute monarchy in the crucial years before 1789 and to refocus debate on the origins of the French Revolution by bringing together an international team of experts on eighteenth-century government, state-formation, military and diplomatic history in order to examine the theme of ‘The crisis of the Absolute Monarchy’.
The organisers would like to thank the British Academy, The Ambassade de France au Royaume-Uni, the Society for the Study of French History, Oxford University Press, Birkbeck College, the University of Reading, and the BBC History Magazine for their generous support.
Réunissant une équipe internationale d'historiens spécialistes de l'Etat, de la politique, de la religion, de l'armée et de la diplomatie au 18e siècle, cette conférence se propose de contribuer au débat sur les origines de la Révolution en portant son attention sur le thème de la crise de la monarchie absolue.
Les organisateurs tiennent à remercier la British Academy, l'Ambassade de France au Royaume-Uni, la
The Crisis of the Absolute Monarchy: An International Conference in honour of Professor William Doyle, FBA
The British Academy
14-15 December 2009 MONDAY 14 DECEMBER
9.00-09.45 Registration
09.45-10.45 Professor T.C.W. Blanning (University of Cambridge), ‘Bill Doyle and the Origins of the French Revolution’
10.45-11.00 Tea/Coffee
11.00-13.00 Chair: Professor Malcolm Crook (Keele University)
Professor Joël Félix (University of Reading), ‘The problem with Necker’s Compte rendu au Roi (1781)’
Dr Nigel Aston (University of Leicester), ‘Necker's aristocratic constitutionalism: the British connection'’
Professor Julian Swann (Birkbeck College), ‘Servants of the king or the nation? The politics of disgrace in the reign of Louis XVI’
13.00-14.00 Lunch
14.00-16.00 Chair: Professor Philippe Loupès (Professeur émérite à l'Université Bordeaux III - Michel de Montaigne)
Professor David Bell (John Hopkins University), ‘A roi de guerre despite himself: war, pacifism, and the French monarchy in the eighteenth century’
Professor Olivier Chaline (Université de Paris-IV), ‘La monarchie des Bourbons et la rivalité navale franco-anglaise’
Dr Guy Rowlands (University of St Andrews), ‘The maison militaire du roi and the coming of the French revolution’
Tea/Coffee
16.30-18.00 Chair: Professor Marianne Elliott (University of Liverpool) Dr Mike Rapport (University of Stirling), 'The crisis of the old regime seen from the colonial perspective'
Dr Michael Broers (University of Oxford), ‘The fall of a textbook absolutism; the kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia in the age of revolutions’
Drinks Reception (Sponsored by the BBC History Magazine)
20.00 Conference Dinner. The Oxford and Cambridge Club TUESDAY 15 DECEMBER
09.00-11.00 Chair: Professor Guy Chaussinand-Nogaret (Directeur de recherches honoraire à l'EHESS)
Professor Tom Kaiser (University of Arkansas at Little Rock),
‘The Austrian Alliance and the Emergence of a French
‘National’ Foreign Policy, 1756-1789’
Professor Hamish Scott (University of St Andrews),
'Reputation and Revolution: International decline and the fall of the Bourbon monarchy'
Professor Munro Price (University of Bradford), ‘The Maréchal de Castries and the pre-Revolution’
Tea/Coffee
11.30-13.00 Chair: Dr Marisa Linton (Kingston University)
Dr Rafe Blaufarb (Florida State University), ‘Female Lordship and the French Revolution’
Dr Clarisse Coulomb (Université Pierre Mendès France, Grenoble), ‘Des histoires communales: Aux sources du discours anti-nobiliaire en France’
13.00-14.00 Lunch
14.00-16.00 Chair: Professor Josette Pontet (Professeur émérite à l'Université Bordeaux III - Michel de Montaigne)
Professor Michel Figeac (Université Bordeaux III - Michel de Montaigne), ‘Entre traditionalisme et modernité, quelques clés de compréhension du malaise nobiliaire à la veille de la Révolution française’
Professor Jean-Pierre Poussou (Professeur émérite d'Histoire moderne à l'Université de Paris-IV), 'Du bon ou du mauvais usage de la notion de crise à propos du règne de Louis XVI' Dr Peter Campbell (University of Sussex), 'Pre-revolution and the concept of crisis'
Tea/Coffee
16.30-17.30 Chair Professor Colin Jones (Queen Mary, University of London), Round Table Discussion: The Crisis of the Absolute Monarchy reconsidered
17.30 Close
Formulaire de réservation
The Crisis of the Absolute Monarchy: An International Conference in Honour of Professor William Doyle, FBA
Frais d’inscription: £95 (£75 étudiants) incluant deux déjeuners (14 et 15 décembre), thés et cafés, ainsi que la réception du lundi 14 décembre
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Prière de renvoyer ce formulaire à :
Professor Julian Swann, Department of History, Classics and Archaeology, Birkbeck College, University of London, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HX
