Louis-Philippe

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani mainly refers to Louis-Philippe as the "bourgeois king" who came out of the 1830 revolution. He returns several times to the image of the monarch who went out on foot with his umbrella1, and compares it to Giscard2. He also describes him as a "centre-left centre-right" king3. He places him within the sequence of the 1830 and 1848 revolutions4 and notes that 1848 drove him from the throne2. At his meeting with Bernard Friot in 2018, he makes a further point: it was under his regime, in 1830, that lifelong salary for naval officers was created to serve colonial conquest5. He sees this as an example of the cunning of reason: a colonialist project ends up producing an institution, lifelong salary, which Friot defends in an entirely different spirit6. For him, Louis-Philippe is therefore both the political figure of bourgeois rule and the occasion of a historical paradox.

1. 1Clouscard : Les métamorphoses de la lutte des classes2 Sept 2024 · 1:23:07
2. 2#3.3 D'Ulysse à Dédale1 Aug 2017 · 44:01
3. 3#2 - Les Attelé(e)s de la Confinitude30 Mar 2020 · 39:10
4. 4La religion de l'Argent29 Sept 2019 · 1:29:07
5. 5Rencontre Dominique Pagani - Bernard Friot - 1er Juin 201812 Jun 2018 · 52:43
6. 6Rencontre Dominique Pagani - Bernard Friot - 1er Juin 201812 Jun 2018 · 58:48

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