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Philip, Marion. "La sexualité légitime comme privilège. Masculinités parisiennes à l’époque moderne (1600-1750)." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Sorbonne université, 2022. http://www.theses.fr/2022SORUL065.
Full textThe Catholic Reformation in the 17th century is well known for its promotion of the sacrament of marriage. The State also conducted a policy of regulating sexuality and marriage, thereby protecting and asserting paternal authority over the matrimonial destiny of its dependents. This austerity sharply contrasts with the “sexual liberation” of the 18th century, which mainly benefited men. Sexuality would then gradually escape the moral constraints and legitimacy of marriage. These developments shaped men's relationship with sexuality between 1600-1750. This study establishes a clearer chronology for this shift. It mainly relies on Parisian’s Church Court’s archives, which documented the sexuality of Parisians from various social backgrounds: from clerics and lay people, to single and married men. These archives are looked at in correlation to a set of medical, moral and legal texts, pornographic writings, songs, proverbs and iconography. Three lines of inquiry are considered. Firstly, whilst marriage was an attractive ideal in the 17th century, because it gave people access to a legitimate sexuality which did not affect the chances of salvation, we argue that the patriarchal figures (such as father, master and captain) gradually increased their control of it. Secondly, by scrutinising the fragility of conjugal masculinities, we demonstrate how domestic power is indexed to the exercise of exemplary sexual conduct. Finally, the study delves deep into lay and ecclesiastical single men’s relation to illegitimate sexuality, and what it reveals about their relationship to women, but also to other men
Depauw, Jacques. "Spiritualité et pauvreté à Paris au XVIIème siècle." Paris 4, 1994. http://www.theses.fr/1994PA040071.
Full textThe relations between spirituality and the attitudes to the poor are studied with documents such as liturgy, texts of the most published authors, or the most influential, small books perhaps anonymous, sermons, rules and accounts of hospitals, titles of donation. The whole of these documents is used by constitution of series and in a comparative way. The outlime which was chosen is chronological. It begins with the crisis of the parisian catholicism at the begining of the xviith century and continues with the study of a cycle of active spirituality which includes first the edition of widespread texts and individual experiences, then a time of collective action, the traumatic events of the "fronde", and at last a phasis of institutionalisation under the king's authority. Finally, it is a study of the relations between active spirituality and contemplative spirituality, between the composition of the parisian society ant the forms of assistance, between evolution of the communication of the christian message about poverty and social forms of poverties
Damiani, Loïc. "Les avocats parisiens de l'époque mazarine." Paris 4, 2004. http://www.theses.fr/2004PA040123.
Full textThe lawyers who were registered at the bar of Paris between 1643 and 1661 formed a group of great significance within the "Parlement" (the kingdom's first court of justice). One had to study law and take the oath to become a lawyer. Several hundreds of them were practasing as lawyers, a profession that developped a structure in the middle of the seventeenth century and practice of which has evolved ever since. Their image and réputation, sometimes criticized in literature, were a permanent concern for them. They also expended a lot of effort to progress socially and attempted to take advantage of their profession as a springboard. The study of their riches and living environment show the dynamism of these families. Nurtured on classical culture they intented to find their place in the kingdom's intellectual life. They became a major group in the judicial life of the time thanks to their collections of books, that showed their will to become highly cultured, and their numerous writings. They took part entirely in the great religious, political end literary debates than ran through the France of Louis XIV
Milovanovic, Nicolas. "L'iconographie des grands décors monarchiques (1653-1683) : De la fin de la Fronde à la mort de Colbert." Paris 4, 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2003PA040022.
Full textMonarchical french painted ceilings realized between the end of the "Fronde" (1653) and the death of Colbert (1683) are numerous, from the Louvre apartments to the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles. From a formal point of view, there is a triple unification: structural, iconographical and ornamental, with a hierarchy of the subjects and a submission of the ornaments to the themes of the decorations. All programs are founded on metaphor: either enigmatic, when the beholder has an active part to play, or emblematic, when the meaning is given precisely by a text. The meaning remains always part of a system, where the supremacy of the king is related to the benefits the subjects get from it. The careful composing of the iconographical programs implies that the meaning is part of the "esthetic significance" i. E. , that is the part the authors wanted the beholder to perceive on an esthetic level
Courtin, Nicolas. "L’art d’habiter : l’ameublement des hôtels particuliers à Paris au XVIIe siècle." Paris 4, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007PA040190.
Full textUsing a corpus of 24 hôtels and 55 related furniture inventories drawn up between 1610 and 1716, we compare for the first time archives with original buildings, furniture and pictures, in order to understand the way of living in these specific great houses. Layouts are specified, pointing out a real variety of uses. By examining the relations between furniture and architectural envelopes, we highlight the great mobility of objects, and the rise of the notion of decorative coherence. Furniture estimations allow us to present, type by type, the invaluable informations of these first-hand descriptions, updating today’s knowledge of European furniture placed in Paris interiors. This study brings out a great variety in uses, types, materials, colours, and prices, evoking cosy interiors, more or less sumptuous according to one’s taste and choice between public and private spheres
Surun, Michel. "Marchands de vin en gros à Paris au XVIIe siècle : Recherches d'histoire institutionnelle et sociale." Paris 2, 2005. http://www.theses.fr/2005PA020023.
Full textDriancourt-Girod, Janine. "Les Luthériens à Paris du début du XVIIe siècle au début du XIXe siècle (1626-1809)." Paris 4, 1990. http://www.theses.fr/1990PA040159.
Full textHere is the history of two lutheran congregations of German craftsmen,established in Paris,during the 17th and 18th centuries,under the protection of the Swedish embassy and Danish embassy chapels. .
Toliopoulou, Evangélie. "L'art et les artistes des Pays-Bas à Paris au XVIIème siècle." Paris 4, 1991. http://www.theses.fr/1991PA040025.
Full textThe presence of Flemish and Dutch artists is constant in seventeenth century Paris,where they were employed in almost every kind of artistic work. Flamish art on the other hand, produced in Paris or imported from the Flanders,has a relatively large part in the contemporary collections
Juratic, Sabine. "Le monde du livre à Paris entre absolutisme et Lumières : recherches sur l'économie de l'imprimé et sur ses acteurs." Paris, EPHE, 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2003EPHE4051.
Full textBased on a study of printed books professionals and their practices, this thesis evaluates the economic impact of the state control over all printed material that king louis the xivth established at the beginning of his reign and that lasted until the revolution. First part looks into printing and publishing organization in paris as driven by booksellers and printers community. Second part details socio-professional aspects of master printers from end of 17th and over a century. The last part highligts the changes in printing labor and how they impact the distribution business
Warolin, Christian. "Le cadre de vie professionnel et familial des apothicaires de Paris au XVIIe siècle." Paris 4, 1994. http://www.theses.fr/1993PA040235.
Full textThe status of the joint community of apothecaries and grocers and the professional training of aopthecaries have been examined, as have the conditions under which the profession was exercised : associate contracts, equipment trade, valuation of shop instruments, of scales and weights, of drugs and compositions, and of books. Medicinal pound-weights have been studied. Even though medical concepts and doctrines which oriented medical prescriptions remained influenced by the past, evolution was beginning to take place ; the medical body's keen interest in preparations containing opium and in the development of chemical remedies announced the era of chemical medication. The number of apothecaries and their locations on the map have been determined. Marriage contracts reveal that dynasties were frequent. Testaments bear witness to the religious fervour of apothecaries. House-letting leases, agreements for sales of houses, official reports of appraisals by Paris building trade clerks of court, and even inventories after death, provide indications of the conditions of accommodations. An evaluation of professional resources (shop contents : instruments, drugs and compositions) and of certain domestic resources (objects of value, liquid assets), situated apothecaries among the well-to-do bourgeoisie. In some cases, property resources were considerable. Although apothecaries suffered on account of commercial competition from grocers, they especially suffered from the guardianship exerted by the Faculty of medicine which, in particular, opposed that master apothecaries organise independent pharmaceutical training
Lemoine, Claire. "Cortèges et pouvoirs à Paris aux XVIIème et XVIIIème siècle (1660-1789)." Paris 7, 1993. http://www.theses.fr/1993PA070077.
Full textThe processions -defined as collective movements structured by a ceremonial- are part of the system of representation of the "public thing". The various institutions in the city of Paris are part of them since august 1660 until the end of the summer 1789. The religious processions, the corteges and the ceremonial of the state involving the king and the royal family, the diplomatic ceremonial and the celebrations of victory and peace, are occasions to put on stage the hierarchy of roles in the Ancien Regime Society and its working rules. Walking order, precedence, clothing, allegorical setting and routes are the clues of a discourse to decipher, a detailed discourse which vests time and space. The registers of the masters of ceremony and all the archives that have been considered testify to the concern for the coherence of the codified and ritual practices. Their core is religious and the ceremonial is repetitive by nature; it's also the transmission of a necessarily ancestral culture. But each generation gives this its print and the corteges are subject to a deep evolution in the eighteenth century. They celebrate the king as an individual and his family more than his government's policy and they don't serve the exaltation of the monarchy anymore. Ostentation and luxury are no more appreciated nor understood. The physiocrats and the philanthropists have encouraged the fashion for thrift and assistance for the poor. This is testified by the official processions, mostly in the summer 1789 when the parisian people itself decides to march for thanks givings for the revolution and for propitiatory prayers
Fuccia, Laura de. "Collezionisti francesi di pittura veneziana nel Seicento." Paris, EPHE, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007EPHE4151.
Full textMichel, Marie-José. "La société janséniste parisienne (1640-1730)." Paris 1, 1996. http://www.theses.fr/1996PA010587.
Full textThe approach is based on an attempt to understand how french society was progressively "jansenisee" during the "ancien regime". The geographical framework is paris and its surroundings. 1640 and 1730 mark the beginning and the end of the study : from the influence of Saint-Cyran and jansen in France to the demise of the movement made inevitable by an accumulation of official condemnations. The importance and duration of this movement have been assessed using parochial archives, memoires, political pamphlets, satirical drawings and lists of "appelants". The jansenists at that time showed a new path to God, based on an individual "conversion" implying a spiritual development based on suspicion of the world and a quest for the absolute nature of god. This work gave rise to various passions and polemics, the defence of the jansenists themselves, the cutting criticism of the jesuits, then to the various reactions of philosophers, writers and the church over a long period. Jansenism in paris and france only became the subject of historical studies in the 1930s. "jansenisation" in paris spread over two distinct stages : the first from 1640 to 1709 springing from some outstanding individuals such as Saint-Cyran, Mother Angélique Arnauld, and the major spiritual leaders of the movement. With means adapted to the society of the time they understook a widereaching "jansenisation" of the disappointed elite. The movement reaches a peak between 1709 and 1730 based on a great number of jansenized clergy who knuckled down to the task of working at the parish level on adults and children : around 1730 two thirds of the population were "jansenized". This sucess was due to the quality of the mission which was adapted to the fears of the times and more inspiring than absolute monarchism
Roger, Nadine. "La prostitution sous le règne de Louis XIV à Paris (1661-1715)." Paris 4, 1991. http://www.theses.fr/1991PA040153.
Full textThe repression of prostitution during the reign of Louis the Fourteenth ie characterized by a new legislation and the application of new penalties. Particularly the confinement in the general hospital from 1684. This legislation is not strictly applicated by police and even by justice. In fact when there is the establishment of public scandal, the police operes. The sociological aspect of the prostitution's world indicate the originality of this group in their familial and social behaviors. It also oneself conspicuous by its home their relationship and the practice
Fromageau, Jérôme. "La police de la pollution à Paris, de 1666 à 1789." Paris 2, 1989. http://www.theses.fr/1989PA020115.
Full textIts is under louis the forteenth that the absolute monarchy becomes aware of the necessity to reform the policy which at that time regulates the prevention of pollution. Hence in 1666, a conseil de police is organized, a sort of extraordinary commission in charge of "the policy reform". Although the lieutenance de police is its principal achievement, the policy, enacted by the monarchy to improve its capital's maintenance is accompanied by a set of measures wich will reinforce the functions of this new institution. This reform, however, is subject to institutional limitations. Thus, until 1789, the duties of lieutenant general de police remain restricted by those of the bureau de la ville, the parlement and by the tutelage of the secretaire d'etat a la maison du roi and of the controleur general des finances. Linked, in particular, to the scientific concepts of the era, the action undertaken, by the monarchie administration reveals the existence of an uncontestatble political will justifying this pollutin policy in the domains of town planning, public hygiene and food. The effectiveness of this administrative intervention mus dispite all be considered rela
Mazel-Nguyen, Claire. "Les monuments funéraires à Paris (1610-1715)." Paris 10, 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2003PA100093.
Full textThis is a study of the collection of funeral monuments ordered and placed in Parisian churches between 1610 and 1715 and it questions the cause of their success during this period. The first part is about the history of the « reception » and it allows us to understand numerous perceptions of the funeral monument. The second part questions what function the monument has in the church : what is the relation between it and the dead body ? Does it help human salvation ? Why does the church favor such art at this time of Counter Reformation ? The third part considers the social motivations the commissioners had. It more specifically questions the power of the images had as means of propaganda and justification. In the final analyses, one has to handle these concepts with care. The subject of the fourth and last part is the «poetics» of the funeral monuments, that is to say, the way they were conceived, designed and made
Alsina, Dominique. "Louyse Moillon (Paris, vers 1610-1696) : la nature morte au Grand Siècle : catalogue raisonné." Toulouse 2, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010TOU20066.
Full textChen, Yueh Yuan. "Les amphithéâtres d'anatomie à Paris du XVIIe au XIXe siècle." Paris 10, 2008. http://www.theses.fr/2008PA100027.
Full textThis thesis aims to study the factors that made, from the seventeenth century to the nineteenth, the amphiteatre of anatomy a delicate problem to be dealt with for the administrative power, and the solutions which were adopted by the French government. At that time, the education of the anatomy was naturally part of the preoccupations of the government from the viewpoint of the nation that was more and more dedicated to the development of science and medical profesion. But in order to thoroughly understand this problem it is also essential to consider the reactions of a society to the issue of death that could not be fully attributed to the scientific progress and to development of the public health service. This thesis attempts to study the major problems of every period using a chronological division that articulates around the Revolution of 1789. It begins with the questions such as the conflit between doctors and surgeons. The shortage of corpses, grave robbing and theft of corpses, and the disorder in the management of anatomic operations. Then, this thesis discusses the methods of centralized management of anatomic operations and the associated raw material taken by the administrative power that faced scientific, hygienic and social problems that arose from the amphitheatre of anatomy
Hamdi, Safia. "Les officiers de la police économique à Paris sous le règne de Louis XIV." Paris, EHESS, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007EHES0049.
Full textThe officers of the economic police were subordinate agents of the provost ship of the traders who took charge of the surveillance and the control of the commercial transactions over ports and in the Parisian markets. In the hierarchy of proper authorities in supply, the municipality held a role of police mattering as regards the goods forwarded in the capital by waterway. Indeed, the Seine was considered like Space out founder of the municipal power. The control of the commercial transactions over the river was the reserved domain of the municipal administration: it exercised this mission through these officers. These last ones were appointed to the various operations of measurement, check of quality and quantity, porterage, credit and publicity. The fates of these officers were closely connected, on one hand, to the history of the Parisian municipality and to the big changes in its reports with the royal power; and, on the other hand, in the history of the venality of offices and credit of the State in the Century of Louis XIV
Sarmant, Thierry. "La république des médailles : numismates et collections numismatiques à Paris du XVIIe au XIXe siècle." Paris 1, 1999. http://www.theses.fr/1999PA010580.
Full textLike the republic of letters, the republic of medals lived his golden age in XVIIth and XVIIIth centuries. Then, Paris was one of the most important centres of European numismatical activity, particularly during the reign of Louis XIV. This republic was neither a coherent structure, nor an organised network. The metallical nation never had any centre or head no collection, not even the king's one, could play this part. However, in the first quarter of the XVIIIth century, a body, the academie royale des inscriptions, was something like a senate of this republic. In fact, the republic of medals'cohesion came from a community of uses and conceptions. The same books of medals circulated all over europe the cabinets were ordinated according to the same principles. The alliance between collectors and scientists was a strong cement too the republic of medals was respublica curiosa as well as litteraria. Coin collection was always linked with books of medals the medal cabinet was a complement and an ornament for a library so, numismatic curiosity presents a great likeness with book collection : same alliance of aesthetic worry and of intellectual one, same value of empirical knowledge for research, same importance of the sense of touch, same attention to the notion of exemplary. The great steps of the history of numismatics are 1660, when the science of medals became independent, years 1720-1730, when numismatical curiosity faded away, years 1770, when the pellerin generation brought decisive transformations to method and a new point of view on coins, and, finally, the years 1830, when numismatics found the centres it yet conserves : big Parisian merchants, revue numismatique, soon société francaise de numismatique, cabinet des médailles. Long seen as an uninteresting period of numismatics' history, XVIIIth century was, in fact, an essential moment, and the true grand siecle of the republic of medals
Rohfritsch, Edmond. "Balthazar Moncornet, graveur, éditeur et marchand d'estampes à Paris au XVIIe siècle, ou l'invention du portrait de grande diffusion." Paris 4, 1996. http://www.theses.fr/1995PA040150.
Full textBorn in Brussels in 1598, Balthazar Moncornet came to Paris with his parents in 1602, where he died in 1668. In 1632, in favourable conditions created by the appearance of the first periodical press in France the year before, he invented a new role for the engravings, being the first one in Europe to publish portraits of well-known people on a large scale. These ones were not expensive, because they were produced by copying engraved models. They represented individually french and foreign famous contemporaries. Moncornet had the monopoly of this activity for twenty years. At the end of this period, it is estimated that the produced and sold about four thousand of such portraits per month. In 1652, a competition appeared. It published a similar type of prints, but of a larger format and doted of a biographical notice engraved under each effigie. After trying to resist by imitating his opponent, Moncornet was obliged to reduce his activity. In 1659, in an attempt to dominate the market again, he started a new presentation of his prints characterized by a large decorated border. The innovation encountered success, but its too high cost compelled him to give up almost completely a sort of engravings he had created. Nevertheless, with the production of more than nine hundred plates, Moncornet has been the most productive publisher of portraits during the XVIIth century in France
Cousinié, Frédéric. "Maîtres-autels et retables parisiens (1610-1660) : pratiques religieuses et expériences artistiques dans le Paris du XVIIe siècle." Paris 4, 1997. http://www.theses.fr/1996PA040280.
Full textOne of the major artistic programs of seventeenth century Paris was the construction of fifty or so high altars, built in church sanctuaries of the capital between 1610 and 1660. .
Adamczak, Audrey. "Robert Nanteuil (Reims, ca. 1623-Paris, 1678) : portraitiste du temps de Louis XIV : l’oeuvre dessiné." Paris 4, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007PA040088.
Full textRobert Nanteuil, engraver, draughtsman and pastel painter, was a pupil of Nicolas Regnesson at Reims circa 1643-1645 and went to Paris where he settled down around 1647. At that time Nanteuil received valuable guidance from the Flemish painter Philippe de Champaigne whose influence is deeply felt in his portraits and met the printmaker Abraham Bosse who trained him in the technique of burin engraving. Then he developed his own method and gained official recognition in 1658 : Louis XIV appointed him designer and engraver. Nanteuil’s subjects involved royalty and high-ranking members of society. A portrait drawing by Nanteuil was often intended as a preparatory study for an engraving made to adorn the cover of a doctoral thesis dedicated to the sitter or to illustrate a book. Robert Nanteuil was the earliest artist to have used pastel in a painterly manner to cover the entirety of a sheet of paper. He had used sticks of coloured paste to heighten their drawings as nobody else before him in the seventeenth-century French school : he had developed pastel into an independent medium of draughtsmanship. Robert Nanteuil brought into the realm of official painted portraiture the ease and charm which were formerly found only in the drawn portraiture of sixteenth-century and early seventeenth-century artists such as Clouet and Dumonstier. The thesis consist of a large study on Nanteuil’s career and include a complete analysis of his artistic manner as draughtsman and pastel painter with a “catalogue raisonné” of his works on paper
Roten, Hervé. "Les traditions musicales judéo-portugaises en France : Bordeaux, Bayonne, Paris." Paris 4, 1996. http://www.theses.fr/1996PA040264.
Full textSince the middle of the 16th century, France has sheltered judeo-portuguese communities whose liturgical music is still nowadays badly known. After having presented the musical practice of these ancient congregations of "marranos", this study attempts to make an inventory of the musical sources - oral and written pieces - of the judeo-portuguese communities of Bordeaux, Bayonne and Paris. Then, a musicological analysis will permit to understand the musical systemic of these oral traditions. By the way of paradigmatic transcription, the author tries to reveal the musical structure of the different prayers. He sets out the syntactic rules of the Jewish New Year feast (Rosh Ha-Shanah). Finally, a synchronic and diachronic study of different versions of a same prayer will allow considering the relation between oral and written tradition and the degree of continuity or change of this liturgical music during about two centuries
Guilbaud, Juliette. ""À Paris, chez Guillaume Desprez. . . " : le livre janséniste et ses réseaux aux XVII et XVIII siècles." Paris, EPHE, 2005. http://www.theses.fr/2005EPHE4045.
Full textThe Jansenist movement has been primarily, until now, the subject of analyses dominated by issues concerning literary history, limited in national historiographical aspects. The thesis focuses on a new approach related to book history. It aims to demonstrate that the partisans of Jansenism, in spite of their social diversity, can be regarded as a party, utilising printed matter as a basis for cohesion and propaganda. The organisation of this party is, above all, strategic. This is because it relies on a network of influential relations in competing powerful and controversial. The political and religious authorities understood its potential and realised that it was necessary to control the spread of its ideas. The Jansenists, with the help of their printers and book sellers, ensured efficacy of the publication and diffusion of their ideas. The Jansenists, with the help of their printers and book sellers, ensured efficacy of the publication and diffusion of their ideas. This thesis demonstrates precisely how Jansenism used printed matter to influence public opinion and how it can be understood in relation to the modern phenomena of mass media and mass circulation. The role consequently allowed the Jansenist movement to spread throughout Europe, particularly in the German-speaking territories and in Central Europe, in the seventeenth and especially the eighteenth century. Also during this period, the Jansenists made use of innovations in the technology of printed matter to futher perpetuate the diffusion of their literature
Bennini, Martine. "Les conseillers à la cour des Aides au XVIIe siècle (1635-1691) : étude sociale." Paris, EHESS, 2004. http://www.theses.fr/2004EHES0038.
Full textThe councillors of cour des aides were predominantly stemmed from the world of the Robe. They were a sovereign court's magistrates that heard on appeal, fiscal contentious affairs and appreciated person's nobility. The acquisition of their charge was, either a springboard to accede to a more prestigious charge, or the way to get dignity and a profitable office. Speculation victims or profiteers concerning the value of the office in the two first third of the 17th century, these magistrates were led with their families into a credit spiral that allowed the monarchy to bring in capitals. After the édit de fixation of 1665, the consequence of the office economic depreciation was the deterioration of its social importance detectable in the matrimonial agreements. The study of families origins and unions, cames to light a united circle. The family and friendship ties show this solidarity
Allaire, Bernard. "Le commerce des fourrures à Paris et les pelleteries d'origine canadienne en France (1500-1632)." Doctoral thesis, Université Laval, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/24893.
Full textMétayer, Christine. "Écrivains publics et milieux populaires à Paris, sous l'Ancien Régime : le cas des écrivains des charniers du cimetière des Saints-Innocents." Doctoral thesis, Université Laval, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/28416.
Full textBontemps, Sébastien. "Le décor sculpté religieux à Paris (1660-1760)." Thesis, Aix-Marseille, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012AIXM3110.
Full textThis work on the religious sculptured decoration in Paris had for ambition to built the image of a partially disappeared heritage : the space interns of the Parisian church between 1660 and 1760 through the liturgical furniture, the relief decoration or in round-bump, in the nave, the transept and the choir of the churches of the capital of the kingdom. Our study so analyzes the religious sculpture in its immediate space, between monumental art and decorative art, the end of the big royal religious orders of the XVIIth century, such the Dome des Invalides, in the advent of the neoclassicism in the choir of Saint-Germain-l'Auxerrois in 1760, before the resumption of the big royal construction works, inaugurated by the works in the basilica saint-Geneviève. Even if a part of these decorations was destroyed in the Revolution, it is possible to determinate exactly their contents : the destroyed elements are analyzed from numerous iconographic and written sources which allow to restore the eye of the contemporary in a church. Thanks to the discovery of contracts of archives, it was possible to determine the conditions and the material and religious factors of the order. The study of the critical texts, stemming from the contemporary artistic and religious theory, raises the problem of the luxury of the religious decoration, as well as the problem of the organization of the internal space of the church, and on which is widely dependent the stylistic and formal evolution of the decoration. This work combine art history, history of the picture, economic history and religious history to contributes to the knowledge of an underestimated French artistic heritage
Roy, Jean-Michel. "Les marchés alimentaires parisiens et l'espace urbain du XVIIe au XIXe siècle." Paris 1, 1998. http://www.theses.fr/1998PA010629.
Full textNeighbourhood markets are an essential element of the Parisian food distribution network. They are a priviledged observation point for all types of societal phenomena. The economic police supervises, studies and tries out reforms. The rules regulating the food markets divide the roles and the functions of the different types of businesses and their proprietors. The progressive introduction of new market places within the city transforms the inhabitants' relationship to each other and to time, space and money. Coherent social groups, actively contributing to the fabrication of the urban tissue, emerge from these market places. It is possible to percieve and treat these questions using the parisian archival system. Market places succeed in the competition with other forms of commercialization by constantly changing as well as by installing a functional complementarity with these other forms of commercialization: different types of sales, of clients and of products. The multiplication of market places allows, on the one hand, the population to save time and effort, and on the other, to then invest in accumulation and pleasure spending. A heterogeneous social group, principally composed of women, organizes the food commerce. Despite the precarity that one could suppose would result from their regular practice of deceit, they maintain their role and presence for several generations. The storefronts, storage spaces, basements and parking places for the horse drawn carts, result of the market places and the communities using them, create a city greatly influenced by market place habits
Allard, Julie. "La généalogie d'une figure de l'angoisse : formes, pratiques et représentations de la place de Grève (Paris, 1667-1789)." Thèse, Paris 1, 2008. http://www.archipel.uqam.ca/1613/1/D1683.pdf.
Full textJanczukiewicz, Jérôme. "Les relations entre le Parlement de Paris et le Conseil du Roi de la mort de Louis XIII au second retour de Mazarin (1643-1653)." Paris 4, 1998. http://www.theses.fr/1998PA040011.
Full textThe relations between the Parlement of Paris and the Royal Council from 1643 to 1653 present contrasted aspects. Judges served as secretary of state or counselor of state in the various sections of the council and members of the Council served as court honorary counselors in the Parlement. Several families had hived off in both organizations. The king had the power to reward the judges and to interfere in the officials'career. The Parlement willingly drafted the royal bills and worked with the Council on judicial matters. But, after Louis XIII's death, the king's minority and the regency triggered conflicts between the two corps. From 1644 to 1647 the affairs of the toise, the taxe des aises and the Paris tariff showed the Parlement's will to enquire into fiscal matters. And claims over the encroachment of the council marked the court's refusal to see its judicial powers diminish. In the year 1648, the Parlement, after obstructing the passage of new fiscal measures, made a pretext of the annual right renewal for a reform of the administration; sanctioned by the declaration of October 22 1648 the Parlement saw to its implementation. From 1651, unable to take sides, it acted as a go-between to the government and the rebelling princes, while trying to estrange Mazarin permanently from the political scene. This dilatory attitude led to the suppression of the reforms at the time of the king's victory in October 1652, the submission of the court and the permanent return of Mazarin in February 1653
Barreau, Joëlle. "Être architecte au XVIIe siècle : Libéral Bruand, architecte et ingénieur du roi." Paris 4, 2004. http://www.theses.fr/2003PA040271.
Full textLibéral Bruand (1631-1697) was concurrently an architect, a Royal Engineer, and one of the first members of the Royal Academy of Architecture. His great work was the Hôtel royal des Invalides that he built from 1671 to 1676. In addition, he built houses and hôtels intended for a wealthy clientele (aristocrats and financiers). He participated in creating the typology of the "maison de maître" by introducing technical and distributive innovations in hôtels in the years from 1630 to 1650. His art is characterized by a close respect of the program, clarity in planning, and sober ornamentation. This study is the first monograph dedicated to an architect who is representative of the second half of the seventeenth century and who had all the professional qualifications of the builder's milieu of his day. It is founded on abundant source material and unpublished archives, in particular the notarial records of the Minutier central des notaires (Archives nationales, Paris). Beyond the systematic study of the fourteen works that were previously credited to the architect, this research has made it possible to credit him with an additional twenty-three works and to deattribute four
Annabi, Hassen El. "Etre notaire à Paris au temps de Louis XIV : Henri Boutet, ses activités et sa clientèle (1693-1714)." Rennes 2, 1994. http://www.theses.fr/1994REN20037.
Full textThis study deals with a Parisian notary who was from tours and who had been practicing for twenty years. The analysis of this notary's social environment introduces us in the world of the bourgeoisie and the notary profession in Paris. It enables us to understand the conditions of integration of provincial French peoples into the Paris of the second half of the 17th c. It also gives us the chance to study the profession of notary closely. The second part is a study of the clients of this notary. We analyse the original characteristics proper to this case by distinguishing between occasional and regular clients and by classifying them according to their places of origin, their sex and their profession. A chapter is devoted to study of some important clients. Finally, a third part deals with the practice of the notary profession and the importance of its archives as a source of the study of the economic and social situation in those days
Ribière, Philippe. "Ethique et réflexion militaire française dans la seconde moitié du XVIIe siècle : essai d'analyse rétrospective." Paris, EPHE, 2008. http://www.theses.fr/2008EPHE4026.
Full textThe way of thinking the war in France changes during the second half of the 17th century under the reign of Louis Le Grand. The main precepts of the war are well understood by the great officers: the importance of the surprise and the safety of the army are perfectly applied. All the officers are used to exploit their reactivity in order to benefit of any advantages, especially the psychological one. But their actions are often limited by logistic constraints, which remain the great weakness of the 17th century’s army in spite of the progress in this field. The administration created by Colbert and Louvois, and the progress that it carried out in men’s care, give the advantage to the French army at the beginning of the second half of the century. But all the nations in Europe make the same progress and the French resources decrease. The lack of money modifies the aggressive policy, but the religious considerations lead to strategic misjudgement. In the army, the poor efficiency of the Marine leads to a change of its main objective and consequently to its decline. Even on the battlefield, the French army give it away. The enemies bore the Vauban’s “ceinture de fer” and threat Paris but Villars‘s great victory show that the army and its officers can’t be totally defeated according to their high level of military reflexion. Soon the other nations accept the new vision of the Louis XIV: the European equilibrium
Galletti, Sara. "Marie de Médicis et le Palais du Luxembourg." Paris 4, 2004. http://www.theses.fr/2003PA040273.
Full textThe history of the Luxembourg Palace, the first Royal Palace ever built in Paris following a unitary design, had not been the object of a complete monograph since 1904-1910-11. Unpublished or not completely exploited archival sources bring a better understanding of its project and of its economical planning between 1611 and 1615, as well as further knowledge on the building construction - left incomplete in 1631 after the Queen's definitive exile - under its different directors, Salomon de Brosse, Jacques Lemercier and , for the garden, Tommaso Francini. For the first time the interior distribution of the Queen's apartment is also clarified, thus revealing the similarities, despite the differences of the architectural setting, with the Queen's apartment in the Louvre. Suburban Parisian residence built by a Florentine princess, the architecture of the Luxembourg is completely original one, the result of the creative mixture of French and Italian traditions. Dedicated to the couple once formed by Maria de' Medici and Henri IV -as shown by the iconography of the sculpted and painted decorations - the Palace cannot be simplistically interpreted : other that "house" referred to in 1611, the Queen has built a memorial Palace, so that nobody, within the contemporary political context, can forget the source of her authority and power
Cousson, Agnès. "L' expression de soi dans les écrits autobiographiques et la correspondance des religieuses de Port-Royal au XVIIe siècle." Clermont-Ferrand 2, 2008. http://www.theses.fr/2008CLF20004.
Full textMazauric, Simone. "Savoirs et philosophie à Paris dans la première moitié du XVIIe siècle : les conférences du Bureau d'adresse de Théophraste Renaudot (1633-1642)." Paris 1, 1994. http://www.theses.fr/1994PA010697.
Full textThe subject of this doctoral dissertation is the study of "the conferences du bureau d'adresse of Théophraste Renaudot". It aims to determine the role these conferences played in the intellectual life from a philosophic and scientific view point during the first half of 17th century france. The first part studies how the "conferences du bureau d'adresse", re placed within the context of a movement of academic sociability distinctive of that time, functioned as a particular structure of learned sociability. The second part analyses the relation between the "conferences du bureau d'adresse", and modernity using their sources of knowledge and their intellectual forms of exchange which they put to work and diffu sed. The third part apprehends these sources of knowledge from an apistemological point of view and highlights the original way the members of this academy, all issued from a cultivated fring of french society, were situated in relatio n to the scientific and philosophic revolution that was taking place at that time and aims to evaluate the extent of their participation. Finally to determine the specific way they have accomplished a slow, difficult, and chaotic intellectual mutaion, in the margin of the elite
Feutry, David. "Plumes de fer et robes de papier. Logiques institutionnelles et pratiques politiques du parlement de Paris au XVIIIe siècle." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Paris 4, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012PA040192.
Full textThe fight between the crown and the Parlement of Paris has been seen as the origins of the French Revolution. The Parlement was guilty of trying to usurp the power of the King. In fact, the comprehension of the XVIIIth Century is more problematic because the Parlement of Paris had never been the executioner of the monarchy. The judges had tried to help the King in the making of the laws. The institutional study of the mechanisms of the Parlement, the analysis of the fees of the judges and of the theoretical justifications of the Parlement show the real place of the court in the evolution of the century
Élissèche, Charles-Yvan. "La vie musicale à la Sainte-Chapelle de Paris aux XVIe et XVIIe siècles : étude du personnel musical." Thesis, Tours, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015TOUR2012.
Full textThe musical life of the Sainte Chapelle in Paris during the 16th and 17th centuries has not been reassessed since the work of Michel Brenet (1910). The exploitation of sources, development of liturgical studies and advances in musicological research allow for a renewal of our understanding of this church and its music. By founding the Palace chapel, Louis IX established the clergy of the Sainte Chapelle. While monarchy and court abandon this church for the chapel royal, Francis I establishes a correlation between the musical and ecclesiastical staff of the Sainte Chapelle. This interdependence, maintained by the Chapter, results under Louis XIV in an assembly constituted of a majority of musicians. This thesis, based on the systematic study of primary sources, focuses on the clergy and musical activity. A particularity of the Sainte Chapelle is thus revealed: the interdependence of ecclesiastical status and appointment as a musician
Deutsch, Kristina. "Jean Marot et l'estampe d'architecture au Grand Siècle : la représentation du palais du Louvre dans le "Grand Marot"." Paris, EPHE, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010EPHE4040.
Full textUntil now, the main interest of historians towards the work of the etcher of architecture Jean Marot (about 1619-1679), who represented many buildings of the Grand Siècle (the “great century”, as one calls the 17th century in France), was based on their value as sources for the history of the building in question. Our thesis parts from another point of view and asks about the method, the evolution, the form, the objectives and the reception of these images as part of the tradition of the representation of real architecture which becomes important during the Renaissance in Italy and reaches a climax with the Cabinet du Roi of Louis XIV. One of Jean Marot’s major works is the anthologie called the “Grand Marot” (small folio, probably 1686), which renews with the tradition of collections of prints showing the most important buildings of the kingdom, founded by Jacques Androuet du Cerceau, author of the Plus excellents bâtiments de France (Paris, 1576/1579). As the latter, Marot consecrated a group of prints (etched with some engraved details) to the Louvre and the Tuileries in Paris, two initially separated palaces related according to the « grand dessein des rois », initiated by Henri IV as a major symbol of power of the king. The Louvre-etchings are appropriate for the examination of a concrete example and at the same time offer the possibility to learn more about of the evolution of the “Grand Marot”. Interpreting the drawings of architects, Marot often disposes only of a fragmentary documentation, which he combines and completes, always attempting to present his own inventions concerning architecture and decoration. Related to various objectives of self-promotion, dedication and representation of power, the work of Jean Marot gives evidence of a crucial moment, when the state undertook a growing control and organization of artistic production
Demeilliez, Marie. "« Un plaisir sage et réglé ». Musiques et danses sur la scène des collèges parisiens (1640-1762)." Thesis, Paris 4, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010PA040163.
Full textDuring the 17th and 18th centuries, there were regular performances given by Parisian Colleges, the ten belonging to Paris University, and the one held by the Jesuits (College de Clermont, later College Louis-le-Grand), with variable pomp and success, in which music and dance took a significant role. This thesis studies musical practices and dances as part of these performances. A complete catalog of the performances and the preserved sources along with a reconstruction of musical fragments gives an image of the artistic life in these pedagogical institutions in particular and in the Parisian theatrical context of the period. The specific conditions for these performances, the numerous publications (programmes, commentaries, manuscripts, posters, etc.), the actors and their professional environment have been studied. The ballet, with its continuity and prestige, is the subject of the 2nd part of this work. Since the mid-17th century, it holds an important and polemic position within the theatrical performance. The particularities of the college ballet and its century-long evolution are analyzed. The Parisian College Scene appears as a place of multiple assimilations, with actors, chorographic and musical practices from various origins and styles
Bastet, Delphine. "Les Mays de Notre-Dame de Paris (1630-1707) : Peinture, Eglise et monarchie au XVIIe siècle." Thesis, Aix-Marseille, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014AIXM3116.
Full textThe mays of Notre-Dame, paintings offered from 1630 till 1707 by the brotherhood Sainte-Anne-Saint-Marcel of the Parisian silversmiths to the cathedral Notre-Dame de Paris in sign of worship in the Virgin, are one of main group of paintings of the XVIIth century. The doctoral thesis proposes a study of this series in two steps, an analytical approach through a essay and a synthetic approach by means of a catalog. The essay approaches on a first part the fraternal context and explains the choice of large formats presented in the nave of the cathedral. The second part is interested in the religious function and the politics of these paintings. The third part becomes attached in the conditions of the command and to the questions of style and estimates the reception of the works at the XVIIIth, XIXth and XXth centuries. The catalog resumes for every picture all the documentary and visual data. Texts accompanying paintings (contracts, explanations, inventories of Notre-Dame) establish appendices. The importance of mays in the religious painting of the XVIIth century holds their echos with the pastoral concerns and théologales of the Church of Paris, as well as in their status of model for the religious painting. Exposed at the heart of the cathedral of Paris, they constitute a decoration crowned in the service of king and of religious politics of the kingdom
Hernu-Bélaud, Juliette. "De la planche à la page. Pierre Bullet et l’architecture en France sous Louis XIV." Thesis, Paris 4, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015PA040169.
Full textThe fortune of every architect who lived and worked in Jules Hardouin-Mansart’s shadow seems to be reversed only by the gradual rise of monographs devoted to them. Here is the prior aim of this essay. Pierre Bullet appears to be one of those oversights whose role seems hard to capture. However, through his constructive work, other activities and his Architecture pratique does he testifies to an evolution in the ways of both seeing and doing architecture, as in the constructive habits. This study is directed at defining and explaining this evolution while seizing Bullet’s place in it. It splits in three parts. First we review the constructed work, then outline the categories and specifications of the inventing process by the study of the many drawings preserved at the National Museum of Stockholm. At last Bullet’s major writing, the Architecture pratique, is explored both as itself and as a testament of the normalization process in progress at the end of 17th century. This essay is complemented by several tools and documents: one volume of appendix containing transcripts of unpublished writings of Bullet; a catalogue of works; a catalogue of drawings gathering all papers attributed to Bullet kept at the National Museum of Stockholm; a cumulative and critical edition of the Architecture pratique
Roumagnou, Pierre-Benoit. "Dans l’orbite de la capitale : les justices seigneuriales des environs de Paris et le crime, du règne personnel de Louis XIV à l’aube de la Révolution." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Sorbonne université, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018SORUL041.
Full textThis PhD deals with seigneurial justices around Paris between the personal reign of Louis XIV, moment of reform in administration of Paris and in criminal procedure, and the beginning of the French Revolution. Numerous types of documents have been used: documents from seigneurial papers, royal institutions, notaries and seigneurial justices. I oriented my researches on the way these justices worked, the links between the judges and the people, and how crimes’ features can inform us about the society
Bennezon, Hervé. "Un village à l'ombre de Paris : Montreuil sous Louis XIV." Paris 13, 2005. http://www.theses.fr/2005PA131014.
Full textThis dissertation describes the cultural influence of Paris on the surrounding countryside. Its purpose is to give answers to questions regarding the material and cultural environment of Montreuil-sous-Bois inhabitants under the reign of king Louis XIV. The study of the population helps determine to what extend the inhabitants of the village had adopted a way of life close to that of the urban population. The analysis of the different social groups is at the core of the research method used. The sources consist essentially of inventories after death, parish registries and solicitor's records of Montreuil
Losserand, Léonore. "Les chantiers d’églises paroissiales à Paris aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles." Thesis, Paris 4, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017PA040222.
Full textParis under the first Bourbons is a flourishing time for religious building, amongt which parish churches form a category of their own. As worships related to a urban territory, parish churches are funded and built by many-faceted clients, with sometimes conflicting interests : marguilliers, priests, parishioners. Held by financial constraints specific to their case, projects for these churches needed to adjust to the accounts of factories and to the day-to-day activity of parishioners, for decades. Projects of buildfing or total rebuilding are the subject of this study : Saint-Jacques-du-Haut-Pas (1630 – c.1690), Saint-Sulpice (1646 –c.1791), Saint-Roch (1633 and 1653 – 1740), Saint-Nicolas-du-Chardonnet (1656 – c.1720), Saint-Louis-en-l’Île (1656 – vers 1735), and Sainte-Marguerite (from 1624). Establishing the project, whether it is global or partial, sometimes precede the start of the construction by far, and the church’s consecration does not always mean that the shell has been finished. From the project until the final adjunctions (façade, chapel, etc.) through the digging of foundations or discontinuations of work, the process of parish building reveals a permanent aspect, on perpetual renewal. However, these churches are built with techniques and materials of common use at the time in the Parisian basin, by a great number of craftmen, although not well documented.Through the restitution of the different stemps of the project, a face is given to history of modern construction
Adamczak, Alicia. "De Paris à Rome : Jean-Baptiste Théodon (1645-1713) et la sculpture française après Bernin." Thesis, Paris 4, 2009. http://www.theses.fr/2009PA040269.
Full textJean-Baptiste Théodon (1645-1713) was a French sculptor of the reign of Louis XIV who belonged both to the French and Italian schools of sculpture of the Seventeenth-Century. In the 1670’s during his training at the ‘Manufacture des Gobelins’ he worked under the supervision of Charles Le Brun and met the minister Jean-Baptiste Colbert. In 1677 he joined the French Academy in Rome where he carved garden sculptures for royal estates and for his protector Colbert. Early in his Roman carrier he was made member of the Academy of St Luke and member of the Congregazione dei Virtuosi al Pantheon where he met Bernini, the architect Carlo Fontana and the painter Carlo Maratta. Appreciated by the Pope Innocent XII he obtained several commissions at Saint-Peter’s (Baptismal chapel, Monument to Christine of Sweden) and at the same time he worked for the Jesuits at the Sant’Ignazio chapel at the Gesù. As one of the most significant sculptors of the end of the Roman Seicento he dedicated his last years in Rome to the pope Clement XI and the papal basilica before his return to Paris in 1705 where he worked for the Sun King and the ‘Maisons’ of Meudon and Marly. With the same maestria Jean-Baptiste Théodon carved allegories for Colbert, mythological and historical figures for Louis XIV, funeral sculptures and portrait for Christine of Sweden as well as works of art for Roman churches. The Ph.D. dissertation consists of a study of the career of the sculptor with an analysis of his artistic manner and its evolution from Paris to Rome. In addition the thesis includes the complete ‘catalogue raisonné’ of his works, sculptures and drawings
Weil-Curiel, Moana. "Recherches sur Louis Hesselin (1602-1662), ses résidences et ses collections." Paris, EPHE, 2001. http://www.theses.fr/2001EPHE4038.
Full textIturbe-Kennedy, Agueda, and Agueda Iturbe-Kennedy. "Entrer dans la ville : aux confins des paysages urbain et périurbain dans le royaume de France (1670-1789)." Doctoral thesis, Université Laval, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/37073.
Full text"Thèse en cotutelle : Université Laval, Québec, Canada, Philosophiæ doctor (Ph. D.) et Université Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV), Paris, France"
Au cours des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles, la pacification de l'intérieur du territoire français et la stabilisation des frontières ont amené les élites intellectuelles et les administrateurs locaux et royaux à questionner le besoin d'enceintes urbaines à l'intérieur du royaume. La ville de Paris arrase ses remparts dans les années 1670, initiant par là une mutation du paysage urbain qui s'étendra aux territoires français métropolitains et coloniaux. Par l'ouverture des villes, les architectes et ingénieurs se voient confrontés à un nouveau problème architectural et urbain : la nécessité pratique d'une porte qui marque le seuil de la ville s'estompe, tandis que l'attachement citoyen à la charge symbolique des portes de ville persiste. Or, au Siècle des Lumières, la redéfinition de l'usage et de la forme de la porte de ville sont contemporains de l'émergence de nouveaux édifices publics, qui amorcent la réflexion sur le caractère des ouvrages d'architecture. Au sein de cette nouvelle théorie des caractères, la porte de ville devra trouver et affirmer sa place. Il en va de même à l'égard de l'intérêt croissant porté à la notion d'entrée de ville, qui signale une sensibilité nouvelle envers le paysage urbain et territorial et la mobilité qui accompagne la réfection des axes de circulation terrestre et maritime du royaume de France.
Au cours des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles, la pacification de l'intérieur du territoire français et la stabilisation des frontières ont amené les élites intellectuelles et les administrateurs locaux et royaux à questionner le besoin d'enceintes urbaines à l'intérieur du royaume. La ville de Paris arrase ses remparts dans les années 1670, initiant par là une mutation du paysage urbain qui s'étendra aux territoires français métropolitains et coloniaux. Par l'ouverture des villes, les architectes et ingénieurs se voient confrontés à un nouveau problème architectural et urbain : la nécessité pratique d'une porte qui marque le seuil de la ville s'estompe, tandis que l'attachement citoyen à la charge symbolique des portes de ville persiste. Or, au Siècle des Lumières, la redéfinition de l'usage et de la forme de la porte de ville sont contemporains de l'émergence de nouveaux édifices publics, qui amorcent la réflexion sur le caractère des ouvrages d'architecture. Au sein de cette nouvelle théorie des caractères, la porte de ville devra trouver et affirmer sa place. Il en va de même à l'égard de l'intérêt croissant porté à la notion d'entrée de ville, qui signale une sensibilité nouvelle envers le paysage urbain et territorial et la mobilité qui accompagne la réfection des axes de circulation terrestre et maritime du royaume de France.
Throughout the 17th and 18th centuries, the pacification of French interior territories and the stabilization of their frontiers brought the intellectual elite and the local and royal administrations to question the necessity of city walls within the kingdom. The city of Paris razed its ramparts in the 1670's, initiating mutations in the urban landscape that will spread throughout the French territories. By opening their cities, architects and engineers will thus be confronted to a new architectural and urban problem: there is no longer a functional need for a city gate to limit the access, but the symbolic load of city gates as landmarks to which citizen are deeply attached remains.
Throughout the 17th and 18th centuries, the pacification of French interior territories and the stabilization of their frontiers brought the intellectual elite and the local and royal administrations to question the necessity of city walls within the kingdom. The city of Paris razed its ramparts in the 1670's, initiating mutations in the urban landscape that will spread throughout the French territories. By opening their cities, architects and engineers will thus be confronted to a new architectural and urban problem: there is no longer a functional need for a city gate to limit the access, but the symbolic load of city gates as landmarks to which citizen are deeply attached remains.