Pamphlets and Patrons: How courtiers shaped the public sphere in Ancien Régime France

Project Information

PAPA

Grant agreement ID: 101001197

DOI

10.3030/101001197

Project closed

EC signature date 24 February 2021

Start date 1 April 2021

End date 31 March 2026

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 1 948 683,00

EU contribution

€ 1 948 683,00

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITAT TRIER
Germany

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Publications

Book chapters (10)

'Die Philosophie im Herzen.' Brissot und die spätaufklärerische Invektive

Author(s): Damien Tricoire
Published in: Jenseits der Kritik. Praktiken von Schmähung und Herabsetzung im Zeitalter der Aufklärung, 2025
Publisher: De Gruyter Brill

Digital Humanities

Author(s): Simon Dagenais
Published in: Werkzeuge der Historiker:innen, vol. III, 2024
Publisher: Kohlhammer

’Hey France, your coffee is f*** off!’ or How to Interpret Unauthorised Literature in Late Ancien Régime France? Courtly Patronage and the So-Called ‘Mairobert Corpus’

Author(s): Damien Tricoire
Published in: Enlightenment at Court. Patrons, Philosophes and Reformers in Eighteenth-Century Europe, Issue 2022:08, 2022, Page(s) 97-134, ISBN 978-1-80085-626-4
Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Au cœur du parti patriote : la politisation du duc de La Rochefoucauld, du salon de la duchesse d'Enville au club constitutionnel d'Adrien Duport

Author(s): Benoît Carré
Published in: Politisations et émancipations à l'âge des révolutions (1770-1830), 2026
Publisher: Société des études robespierristes

Diderot the Courtier? Philosophers and the World of the Court in Enlightenment Europe

Author(s): Andreas Pečar, Damien Tricoire
Published in: Enlightenment at Court. Patrons, Philosophes and Reformers in Eighteenth-Century Europe, Issue 2022:08, 2022, Page(s) 33-68, ISBN 978-1-80085-626-4
Publisher: Liverpool University Press

"""Eine Staatsangelegenheit"". Patronage und Voltaires politische Stellungnahmen"

Author(s): Damien Tricoire
Published in: Das Jahrhundert Voltaires, 2020, Page(s) 158-189, ISBN 978-3-8487-5854-8
Publisher: Nomos

Praising and Defaming a Prince of the Blood: Théveneau de Morande and Louis-François de Bourbon-Conti

Author(s): Simon Dagenais
Published in: Jenseits der Kritik? Praktiken von Schmähung und Herabsetzung im Zeitalter der Aufklärung, 2025
Publisher: De Gruyter Brill

Princely Courts, Urban Culture and the Public Sphere: the Palais-Royal of the Duc d'Orléans in Paris before the French Revolution

Author(s): Damien Tricoire
Published in: Courts and Politics in an Age of Turmoil, c.1780–1830, 2026, Page(s) 24–53
Publisher: Brill

Que furent les Lumières coloniales ?

Author(s): Damien Tricoire
Published in: Les Lumières dans les Caraïbes françaises et la circulation transatlantique des idées, 2023
Publisher: Garnier

The Triumph of Theocracy: French Political Thought, God, and the Question of Secularization in the Age of Enlightenment

Author(s): Damien Tricoire
Published in: Between Secularization and Reform. Religion in the Enlightenment, 2022, Page(s) 68-100, ISBN 978-90-04-52337-1
Publisher: Brill

Peer reviewed articles (21)

Annexe – Liste des princes et princesses de la maison de France (1661-1848)

Author(s): Luke Ströhla
Published in: Bulletin du Centre de recherche du château de Versailles, 2026, ISSN 1958-9271
Publisher: Centre de recherche du château de Versailles

Jacques-Pierre Brissot de Warville and his path from philosopher to revolutionary

Author(s): Damien Tricoire
Published in: French History, 2026, ISSN 1477-4542
Publisher: Oxford University Press

1789, la cit de Dieu des patriotes. Vellits thocratiques des Lumires et les autres origines religieuses de la Rvolution franaise

Author(s): Damien Tricoire
Published in: French Historical Studies, Issue 46/3, 2023, Page(s) 393-425, ISSN 0016-1071
Publisher: Society for French Historical Studies

Diderot and the Ideal of Paternalistic Monarchy. An Enlightenment Struggle against Moral Decay and for Political Harmony

Author(s): Damien Tricoire
Published in: History of European Ideas, 2024, ISSN 0191-6599
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.

Patronage, politics and pamphlets: the prince de Conti and the authors under his protection, 1736–1776

Author(s): Simon Dagenais
Published in: French History, 2026, ISSN 1477-4542
Publisher: Oxford University Press

Gazettes sous pressions diplomatiques ? Lcriture de la guerre dIndpendance amricaine dans la Gazette de Cologne, le Courier du Bas-Rhin et la Gazette de Leyde (1774-1782)

Author(s): Simon Dagenais
Published in: Le temps des médias, 2024, ISSN 1764-2507
Publisher: Nouveau Monde Editions

Les trois frères désunis. Le comte de Provence et l'éclatement politique de la maison de France (1787-1789)

Author(s): Benoît Carré
Published in: Bulletin du Centre de recherche du château de Versailles, 2026, ISSN 1958-9271
Publisher: Centre de recherche du château de Versailles

'The quintessence of her flattery': libel, publicity and noble patronage in the writings of Madame Du Noyer

Author(s): Miranda Kam
Published in: French History, 2026, ISSN 1477-4542
Publisher: Oxford University Press

The duc d'Orléans, the Palais-Royal Court and the Outbreak of the French Revolution, or Why We Should Take Dynasties Seriously

Author(s): Damien Tricoire
Published in: Bulletin du Centre de recherche du château de Versailles, 2026, ISSN 1958-9271
Publisher: Centre de recherche du château de Versailles

Introduction: court society and the politics of print in the eighteenth century

Author(s): Damien Tricoire, Benoît Carré
Published in: French Hitsory, 2026, ISSN 1477-4542
Publisher: Oxford University Press

Le parti des princes, faction dominante de la cour de France. Dynastie, parentèle et réseaux sous l'Ancien Régime (années 1630-1780)

Author(s): Damien Tricoire
Published in: Bulletin du Centre de recherche du château de Versailles, 2026, ISSN 1958-9271
Publisher: Centre de recherche du château de Versailles

Religion and the Intellectual Origins of the Eighteenth-Century Culture of Sensibility

Author(s): Damien Tricoire, Hasse J. Hällström
Published in: Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques, Issue 52, 2026, Page(s) 39-60, ISSN 0315-7997
Publisher: Alfred University
DOI: 10.3167/hrrh.2026.520103

Introduction: French Princes and Princesses as Pillars of the Early Modern State and Core Actors of Court Politics

Author(s): Damien Tricoire
Published in: Bulletin du Centre de recherche du château de Versailles, 2026, ISSN 1958-9271
Publisher: Centre de recherche du château de Versailles

Like Mother, Like Son? The Political Influence of Louise-Élisabeth de Bourbon-Condé, princesse de Conti (1693–1775)

Author(s): Simon Dagenais
Published in: Bulletin du Centre de recherche du château de Versailles, 2026, ISSN 1958-9271
Publisher: Centre de recherche du château de Versailles

Les devoirs des grands: The prince de Conti between Social and Spiritual Pre-Eminence

Author(s): Nele Dentinger
Published in: Bulletin du Centre de recherche du château de Versailles, 2026, ISSN 1958-9271
Publisher: Centre de recherche du château de Versailles

Gazettes sous pressions diplomatiques ? L'écriture de la guerre d'Indépendance américaine dans la Gazette de Cologne, le Courier du Bas-Rhin et la Gazette de Leyde (1774-1782)

Author(s): Simon Dagenais
Published in: Le temps des médias, 2024, ISSN 2104-3671
Publisher: Nouveau monde éditions

Ghostwriting and Collective Authorship in the Enlightenment: Denis Diderot, d'Holbach's Coterie, and the Problem of Authorship in Raynal's Histoire des deux Indes

Author(s): Damien Tricoire, Antonina Martynenko, Julian Csapó
Published in: Digital Enlightenment Studies, 2026, ISSN 3029-0953
Publisher: Voltaire Foundation

Haute-noblesse et Révolution française : les ducs patriotes de la Société des Trente

Author(s): Benoît Carré
Published in: La Révolution française (under review), 2027, ISSN 2025-0290
Publisher: Institut d'histoire moderne et contemporain

Des ambitions constitutionnelles divergentes. La division publique des princes de la Maison de France (1788-1789)

Author(s): Benoît Carré
Published in: Bulletin du Centre de recherche du château de Versailles (under review), 2027, ISSN 1958-9271
Publisher: Centre de recherche du château de Versailles

Conclusion. Le pouvoir du sang ou le sens du pouvoir politique dans la France des Bourbons

Author(s): Benoît Carré
Published in: Bulletin du Centre de recherche du château de Versailles, 2026, ISSN 1958-9271
Publisher: Centre de recherche du Château de Versailles

La cité de Dieu des patriotes. La pensée théocratique des Lumières et les origines religieuses de la Révolution française

Author(s): Damien Tricoire
Published in: French Historical Studies, 2023, ISSN 0016-1071
Publisher: Society for French Historical Studies

Monographic books (5)

The Bourgeois Gentleman. Voltaire, Court Society, and the Making of the French Enlightenment

Author(s): Damien Tricoire
Published in: 2027
Publisher: Under review with Manchester University Press

Cornelius de Pauw et les images de la Chine dans l’Europe des Lumières. Une philosophie pamphlétaire et anti-despotique

Author(s): Damien Tricoire
Published in: Cornelius de Pauw, ed. Anne Kraume and Andrea Renker, 2026
Publisher: Unknown

Die Aufklrung

Author(s): Damien Tricoire
Published in: UTB, 2023, Page(s) esp. 15-98., ISBN 978-3-8252-6036-1
Publisher: Brill / Böhlau

Enlightenment at Court. Patrons, Philosophes and Reformers in Eighteenth-Century Europe

Author(s): Thomas Biskup, Benjamin Marschke, Andreas Pečar, Damien Tricoire
Published in: Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment, Issue 2022:08, 2022, ISBN 978-1-80085-626-4
Publisher: Liverpool University Press

The Worldview of the European Enlightenment. Religion, Naturalism, and Moral Progress

Author(s): Damien Tricoire
Published in: Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment, 2026
Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Other (4)

Transcription des ordres donnés par le Lieutenant général de police de Paris Antoine de Sartine à l'inspecteur de la librairie Joseph d'Hémery (1765-1774)

Author(s): Simon Dagenais, Cassandra Dostert, Damien Tricoire
Published in: Zenodo, 2026
Publisher: Simon Dagenais

French State Control of the Book Trade in the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century: A Dataset of Censors, Permissions tacites, and Ministerial Interventions in Printing Authorisations

Author(s): Hamish Graham; Simon Dagenais
Published in: 2026
Publisher: Self-published

Data - Mentions and names of God in the Archives Parlementaires (French Revolution)

Author(s): Sonnleithner, Mathias; Dostert, Cassandra
Published in: 2025
Publisher: Self-publishing of a dataset

Le pouvoir du sang. Les princes et les princesses de la maison de France en politique (1661-1848)[Special issue of Bulletin du Centre de recherche du château de Versailles]

Author(s): Carré, Benoît Pierre [ed.] Dentinger, Nele [ed.] Dagenais, Simon [ed.] Kam, Miranda [ed.]
Published in: Bulletin du Centre de recherche du château de Versailles, 2026
Publisher: Centre de recherche du château de Versailles

Conference proceedings (1)

Le pouvoir du sang. Les princes et les princesses de la maison de France en politique (1661-1848)

Author(s): Benoît Carré , Damien Tricoire , Simon Dagenais , Nele Dentinger and Miranda Kam
Published in: Bulletin du Centre de recherche du château de Versailles, Issue 28, 2026
Publisher: OpenEdition
DOI: 10.4000/15ydh

Non-peer reviewed articles (1)

Die Aufklärung in historischer Perspektive - eine Diskussion

Author(s): Damien Tricoire
Published in: Aufklärung. Interdisziplinäres Jahrbuch zur Erforschung des 18. Jahrhunderts und seiner Wirkungsgeschichte, 2026, ISSN 0178-7128
Publisher: Felix Meiner Verlag

Thesis and dissertations (1)

Building the City of God. Rigorist-Augustinian Networks in Early Modern Languedoc

Author(s): Nele Dentinger
Published in: University of Trier, 2026
Publisher: Still unpublished