Incriminating Empire
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8940199 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gregory Mole (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 44 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 27-57 |
| Publication date | 2021-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | French Historical Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0016-1071 • E-ISSN: 1527-5493 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/00161071-8725837 |
| OpenAlex | W3142318849 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 47 |
This article explores the political fallout from the 1766 execution of the comte de Lally, who oversaw the failed defense of France's Indian colonies during the Seven Years' War. Accused of treason by administrators of the French East India Company, Lally emerged as a source of controversy in the final decades of the Old Regime. As critics and apologists clashed over the legality of Lally's execution, questions about the nature of his “crime” gave way to a broader debate over the meaning and limits of company sovereignty under France's absolutist state. This conflict remained unresolved into the French Revolution. The Lally affair provides a window into the nebulous relationship that developed between the crown, the company, and the emergent French nation, laying bare the many faces of empire that confronted France during the eighteenth century. Cet article explore les retombées politiques de l'exécution du comte de Lally, l'homme qui commandait les colonies des Indes orientales françaises durant la guerre de Sept Ans. Accusé de trahison par la Compagnie des Indes, Lally représentait une source de controverse à la fin de l'Ancien Régime. Tandis que les critiques et les apologistes contestaient la légalité de son exécution, la question de la culpabilité de Lally incita un débat plus général sur la nature de la souveraineté de la Compagnie sous l'Etat absolutiste. Ce débat restait non résolu durant la Révolution française. L'affaire Lally souligne les liens nébuleux parmi la Compagnie, la monarchie, et la nation française. Elle révèle également les multiples incarnations de l'Empire français au cours du dix-huitième siècle
Empire · Ethnology · Humanities · Political science · Politics · Principle of legality · Sovereignty · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Historical Economic and Social Studies · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · History · Law · Philosophy
The cult of the nation in France
The French Idea of Freedom
A Colonial Affair
Private Lives and Public Affairs
The Scandal of Empire
Politics and the Parlement of Paris under Louis XV, 1754–1774
Lawyers and Citizens
Nobility Reimagined
Le commerce colonial de la France a la fin de l'Ancien Regime
Inventing the French Revolution
Work and Revolution in France
Between Monopoly and Free Trade
Compagnie des Indes
Contraband
The Old Regime and the Haitian Revolution
The Company-State
A Search for Sovereignty
The Religious Origins of the French Revolution
The Shareholders’ Revolt at the Compagnie des Indes
L'abbé Raynal et la fabrication d'un best-seller
Corporate virtue
French Visions of Empire
The Parlements of France and the Breakdown of the Old Regime 1771-1788
An enslaved Enlightenment
The Colonial Machine Dismantled
Selling American Empire on the Eve of the Seven Years War
L'Économie politique de Joseph Dupleix
La guerre de Sept Ans
Jealousy of Credit
Social Categories, the Language of Patriotism, and the Origins of the French Revolution
La banque protestante en France, de la revocation de l'Edit de Nantes a la Revolution
Enlightenment against Empire
La catégorie ' études coloniales ' est-elle indispensable
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,4 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2025 (5) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |