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L'Ancien Régime et la figure de Louis XIV fascinent. Comment un royaume en guerre six ans sur dix a pu fonctionner ? Parce que Richelieu, puis Mazarin et surtout Colbert ont fédéré autour de leur personne les grandes familles fortunées, répond Daniel Dessert. Sans ces grands financiers, il n'y aurait pas eu de monarchie absolue : l'État, c'est eux ! Colbert est la dernière incarnation de ce système corrompu fondé sur ce qu'on appellerait aujourd'hui le pouvoir des lobbies et reposant sur des solidarités de clan. Esprit froid, minutieux et calculateur, excellent organisateur, mais cupide et amoral. Le Rémois a su léguer à la postérité l'image ambiguë de ce que ses successeurs nommeront avec ravissement un "grand homme d'État". Lui qui exercera le pouvoir réel quand le roi n'en aura plus que l'apparence. Il aura fallu trente ans à Daniel Dessert pour restituer un fonctionnement fisco-financier complexe, dont Colbert fut l'héritier, puis le praticien le plus redoutable. -- Quatrième de couverture

Politique et gouvernement --- Colbert, Jean Baptiste --- Biographies. --- Colbert, Jean-Baptiste --- Colbert, Jean Baptiste, --- France --- Politics and government --- Biographie --- France -- 1643-1715 (Louis XIV) --- History

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"Black Cosmopolitans examines the lives and thought of three extraordinary black men—Jacobus Capitein, Jean-Baptiste Belley, and John Marrant—who traveled extensively throughout the eighteenth-century Atlantic world. Unlike millions of uprooted Africans and their descendants at the time, these men did not live lives of toil and sweat in the plantations of the New World. Marrant was born free, while Capitein and Belley became free when young, and this freedom gave them not only mobility but also the chance to make significant contributions to print culture. As public intellectuals, Capitein, Belley, and Marrant developed a cosmopolitan vision of the world anchored in the republican ideals of civic virtue and communal life, and so helped radicalize the calls for freedom that were emerging from the Enlightenment. Relying on sources in English, French, and Dutch, Christine Levecq shows that Calvinism, the French Revolution, and freemasonry were major inspirations for this republicanism. By exploring these cosmopolitan men’s connections to their black communities, she argues that the eighteenth-century Atlantic world fostered an elite of black thinkers who took advantage of surrounding ideologies to spread a message of universal inclusion and egalitarianism."

Cosmopolitanism. --- Capitein, J. E. J. --- Belley, Jean-Baptiste, --- Marrant, John,

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La 4e de couverture indique : "Deux dessinateurs, Jean-Baptiste Muret et Jean-Charles Geslin, ont pendant des années dessiné des antiques au sein des deux principales collections archéologiques françaises : le premier au Cabinet des médailles de la Bibliothèque nationale de France, de 1830 à 1866, et le second au musée du Louvre, de 1863 à 1870. Qu'il s'agisse de bijoux, de bronzes ou de terres cuites polychromes, venus d'Orient, de Grèce ou d'Italie, les deux dessinateurs ont su créer une documentation scientifique et sensible, alliant la précision du regard archéologique et le talent de l'artiste. Leurs recueils, qui rassemblent plusieurs centaines de dessins largement inédits, témoignent d'une sorte d'âge d'or de la documentation graphique au sein des musées, au moment même du développement de la photographie. Ils constituent aussi une source de première importance sur le goût de l'antique au XIXe siècle et sur l'histoire de l'archéologie et des collections françaises et européennes."

Antiquités --- Collectionneurs et collections --- Muret, Jean-Baptiste --- Geslin, Jean-Charles --- Carnets de croquis. --- Drawing, French --- Muret, Jean-Baptiste, --- Geslin, Jean-Charles, --- Archaeology --- Methodology

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Iohannes Baptista de La Salle --- Christian hagiography. --- Christian saints --- La Salle, Jean Baptiste de, - Saint, - 1651-1719.

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"Black Cosmopolitans examines the lives and thought of three extraordinary black men—Jacobus Capitein, Jean-Baptiste Belley, and John Marrant—who traveled extensively throughout the eighteenth-century Atlantic world. Unlike millions of uprooted Africans and their descendants at the time, these men did not live lives of toil and sweat in the plantations of the New World. Marrant was born free, while Capitein and Belley became free when young, and this freedom gave them not only mobility but also the chance to make significant contributions to print culture. As public intellectuals, Capitein, Belley, and Marrant developed a cosmopolitan vision of the world anchored in the republican ideals of civic virtue and communal life, and so helped radicalize the calls for freedom that were emerging from the Enlightenment.Relying on sources in English, French, and Dutch, Christine Levecq shows that Calvinism, the French Revolution, and freemasonry were major inspirations for this republicanism. By exploring these cosmopolitan men’s connections to their black communities, she argues that the eighteenth-century Atlantic world fostered an elite of black thinkers who took advantage of surrounding ideologies to spread a message of universal inclusion and egalitarianism."

Literature & literary studies --- calvinism --- French revolution --- Atlantic history --- slave trade --- republicanism --- Belley, Jean-Baptiste, --- Capitein, J. E. J. --- Marrant, John, --- Marrant, --- Capitein, Jacobus Elisa Joannes, --- Literature. --- Cosmopolitanism.