Louis XVI

Summary

Dominique Pagani mostly comes back to one episode: the moment when the people of Paris forced Louis XVI to put on the red cap at the Tuileries12. He reads it as a collision of classes and genres3, a mixing of classes that terrifies the ruling classes4, and from which, he says, "everything becomes possible"5. He also mentions the king for his taste for manual trades: he presents him as a locksmith, in connection with the exiled aristocrats who lived from a trade they had learned67, and notes that he loved clockmaking. Other mentions are more occasional: the popular voice that confuses him with Henri IV8, his armies ending Corsican independence9, and the reply "A riot? No, Sire, a revolution," which he takes up to mark the distance between revolt and revolution10.

1. 1Work and the right to work20 May 2018 · 1:14:43
2. 2#5 Happiness versus the death drive in music11 Dec 2020 · 17:42
3. 3At the bistro (part 1)18 Jun 2016 · 43:42
4. 4#16 Programme music, pure music10 Mar 2021 · 1:03:06
5. 5At the bistro (part 1)18 Jun 2016 · 1:01:34
6. 6"On a triangle of madness at the heart of modern consciousness"19 Dec 2014 · 9:09
7. 7E for Enfance (Childhood)19 Dec 2014 · 9:07
8. 8At the bistro (part 2)19 Jun 2016 · 7:50
9. 9Calves and Things (2): ecologism, the highest stage of capitalism?5 Oct 2020 · 28:50
10. 10Neo-fascism and the ideology of desire: Clouscard, as relevant as ever2 May 2024 · 23:10

Summary produced automatically from 13 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.