Charles Paulet

Summary

Dominique Pagani mentions Charles Paulet almost exclusively in connection with the edict known as the Paulette, which he attributes to him as an adviser to Henri IV1 and as the drafter of the text2. What he mainly takes from it is one effect: the edict established the venality of offices, through which one could become noble by buying an office34. Nobility thus ceases to be a matter of birth5, and a continuum is established between commoner and noble6. He returns to this episode from 2015 to 2021, in varied contexts: sessions on crisis and war, readings of Hegel, a preface devoted to Clouscard, and question sessions. He sees a danger in it, since a quantitative element, money, gives access to the qualitative7. He also uses it as an analogy: man becomes like the rich man under the edict, since it is no longer enough to be born a man8.

1. 1The world before, the world after (part 1)16 Jan 2021 · 29:43
2. 2#9.17 The geopolitical metaphor: Planck, Descartes, Clouscard17 Mar 2021 · 1:03:29
3. 3Preface to Simon Verdun's master's dissertation, “The critique of neo-Kantianism in Michel Clouscard”5 Jul 2018 · 50:16
4. 4#5.1 bis Questions (Facebook Live)2 Nov 2018 · 32:30
5. 5Hegel on the Beach 2/51 Feb 2016 · 1:29:37
6. 6#1.5 Between crisis and war: philosophising?10 Dec 2015 · 16:11
7. 7#1.5 Between crisis and war: philosophising?10 Dec 2015 · 48:15
8. 8#1.5 Between crisis and war: philosophising?10 Dec 2015 · 1:20:35

Summary produced automatically from 8 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.