And the Bastards Became Citizens

Sylvie Steinberg

And the Bastards Became Citizens
The Privatization of a Condition of Infamy under the French Revolution
Suivre cet auteur Sylvie Steinberg
In Genèses Volume 108, Issue 3, July 2017, pages 9 to 28

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This article examines why the inclusion of natural children in the social body of citizens was consi dered an achievement of the French Revolution, even though the measures granting new rights to illegitimate children (the Loi du 12 Brumaire An II) were rarely applied and were even significantly reduced following the fall of Robespierre on 9 Thermidor of the same year. The hypothesis forwarded here is that this reaction was accompanied by a process privatizing the rights of persons that resulted in citizenship being considered a dignity independent of the conditions of birth, and the inequalities produced by civil law being isolated to the purely private sphere.

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ISO 690		Copy STEINBERG Sylvie, « Et les bâtards devinrent citoyens. La privatisation d’une condition d’infamie sous la Révolution française », Genèses, 2017/3 (n° 108), p. 9-28. DOI : 10.3917/gen.108.0009. URL : https://cairn:wghqyw8uhkb3@preprod.cairn.info/revue-geneses-2017-3-page-9.htm
ISO 690		Copy STEINBERG Sylvie, "And the Bastards Became Citizens. The Privatization of a Condition of Infamy under the French Revolution", Genèses, 2017/3 (No 108), p. 9-28. URL: https://cairn:wghqyw8uhkb3@preprod.cairn-int.info/journal-geneses-2017-3-page-9.htm
MLA		Copy Steinberg, Sylvie. « Et les bâtards devinrent citoyens. La privatisation d’une condition d’infamie sous la Révolution française », Genèses, vol. 108, no. 3, 2017, pp. 9-28.
MLA		Copy Steinberg, Sylvie. "And the Bastards Became Citizens. The Privatization of a Condition of Infamy under the French Revolution", Genèses, vol. 108, no. 3, 2017, pp. 9-28.
APA		Copy Steinberg, S. (2017). Et les bâtards devinrent citoyens: La privatisation d’une condition d’infamie sous la Révolution française. Genèses, 108, 9-28. https://doi.org/10.3917/gen.108.0009
APA		Copy Steinberg, S. (2017). And the Bastards Became Citizens: The Privatization of a Condition of Infamy under the French Revolution. Genèses, 108, 9-28. https://cairn:wghqyw8uhkb3@preprod.cairn-int.info/journal--2017-3-page-9.htm.
DOI		Copy https://doi.org/10.3917/gen.108.0009

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