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Pascal Bastien

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Université du Québec, Montréal
Urban sociability and political engagement in 18th-­century Paris
01 October 2016 - 30 June 2017
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Pascal Bastien is Professor of modern European history at the Université du Québec in Montreal and Director of the Research Group on the History of Sociability (GRHS). His early research focused on the history of judicial ritual and penal law in 18th-century Paris. Retaining his interest in the Parisian area, he is currently working on the history of urban sociability and the various forms of political mobilization during the Enlightenment.

Research interests

Urban history; history of the Enlightenment; French Revolution; urban justice and order; history of Paris; public space; historiography and epistemology.

Urban sociability and political engagement in 18th-­century Paris

This project for a new social history of Paris seeks to reflect on the emergence of political engagement and a new form of urban citizenship in the second half of the 18th century, more specifically in the decades 1770­‐1780. In the combined continuation of our reflections on the practice of writing (Siméon-­‐Prosper Hardy, Mes Loisirs) and on justice in the 18th-­century city, thinking about Paris as a melting pot that decisively influenced the behaviour of individuals living there and the way in which they receive, perceive and communicate the information around them.
The blending of the private and public spheres that took place in Paris in the years 1760-­‐1770 played a key role in the development of new political identities and in the formation of new practices of citizenship. The circulation of information relies on very specific questions of consumption, mobility, appropriation of space, neighbourhood solidarity, cultural community. By contrast with the overly smooth and “natural” aspect of communication that tends too often to be associated with the Republic of Letters and the Enlightenment, this project aim to reflect on information of any nature, and on how it is appropriated in an urban space made up of places of sociability and agents of surveillance, of public words and clandestine news.
Thinking about citizenship before the Republic should not be reduced to the capacity of those involved to resist different forms of institutionalized authority by force. The concept of citizenship interrogated by this project is not a legal one so much as a social and political one (or political because it is social), and it will be considered as part of a process of formation and construction of the political.


Key publications

Siméon-Prosper Hardy, Mes Loisirs, ou Journal d’événements tels qu’ils parviennent à ma connoissance, 1753-1789, éd. par Pascal Bastien, Sabine Juratic et Daniel Roche, Paris, Hermann, 2012-2015.

Une histoire de la peine de mort. Paris-Londres, 1500-1800, Paris, Seuil, 2011.

L’exécution publique à Paris au XVIIIe siècle. Une histoire des rituels judiciaires, Seyssel, Champ Vallon, 2006.

« Guyton de Morveau, juriste : réformes judiciaires et unification du droit, 1770-1804 », Annales historiques de la Révolution française, 2016/1, 383, p. 46-60.

Rencontre dans le cadre de la Nuit des Idées 2021 avec Pascal Bastien, Université du Québec/GRHS, Simon Macdonald, Queen Mary University, et Colin Jones, Queen Mary University, chercheur en résidence à l'IEA de Paris
28 Jan 2021 17:30 -
28 Jan 2021 19:00,
Proximité et mobilisation politique. Voisins et voisinages à Paris sous la Révolution
Table ronde en présence des auteurs Pascal Bastien, et Simon Macdonald
26 Mar 2020 16:00 -
26 Mar 2020 18:00,
Paris :
DELAYED DATE / Autour de l'ouvrage « Paris et ses peuples au XVIIIe siècle »
Doctoral school organized by P. Bastien, 2016-2017 Paris IAS fellow
01 Jul 2019 08:30 -
05 Jul 2019 17:00,
Paris :
Gouvernance et régulations sociales, XVIIIe - XXe siècles
Doctoral school organized by P. Bastien, 2016-2017 Paris IAS fellow
02 Jul 2018 08:30 -
06 Jul 2018 17:00,
Paris :
Paris en révolutions, XVIIIe-XIXe s.
Conference organized by P. Bastien and S. Macdonald, Paris IAS fellows
18 May 2017 09:30 -
19 May 2017 18:00,
Paris :
Paris et ses peuples. Sociabilités et cosmopolitismes urbains au siècle des Lumières
09 May 2017 11:00 -
09 May 2017 13:00,
Paris :
Paris par la fenêtre : rue Saint-Jacques, numéro 235, S.-P. Hardy, avril-juillet 1789
27 Apr 2017 15:00 -
27 Apr 2017 16:30,
Paris :
“Le dragon dans l’œil”. L’affaire Pajot, à travers les peurs et la criminalité parisienne du XVIIIe siècle
24 Apr 2017 17:00 -
24 Apr 2017 19:00,
Paris :
Espaces, frontières et sociétés de l'échafaud : vers une histoire transnationale de la peine capitale au XVIIIe siècle
20 Apr 2017 17:00 -
20 Apr 2017 19:00,
Paris :
Faire peuple. L'expérience et l'écriture de deux révolutionnaires ordinaires : S.-P. Hardy et A. Duquesnoy, mai-octobre 1789
13 Apr 2017 18:00 -
29 May 2017 19:30,
Paris :
Justice, police et Parisiens au 18e siècle
27 Mar 2017 20:00 -
27 Mar 2017 21:30,
Genève :
Les murs et leurs oreilles : parler et s'informer à la place Maubert (Paris, 1774)
14 Mar 2017 17:00 -
14 Mar 2017 19:00,
Londres :
Five seconds of history : temporal perspectives on a public execution in eighteenth-century Paris
13 Mar 2017 16:30 -
13 Mar 2017 18:30,
Louvain-La-Neuve :
Dialogues avec la potence. Les testaments de mort à Paris au XVIIIe siècle
02 Mar 2017 17:00 -
02 Mar 2017 19:00,
Rennes :
Une affaire à suivre. S'informer de la rumeur et de la nouvelle dans le Paris du XVIIIe siècle
22 Feb 2017 17:00 -
22 Feb 2017 19:00,
Paris :
"Droits du sol". Bannissement, lien social et sortie du droit. Espace français et allemand, fin XVIIIe siècle.
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2016-2017
Modern period (1492-1789)
Western Europe