Conscription in the French Restoration: The 1818 Debate on Military Service

• Autores: Thomas Hippler
• Localización: War in history, ISSN-e 1477-0385, ISSN 0968-3445, Vol. 13, Nº. 3, 2006, págs. 281-298
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The article analyses the parliamentary debate in the French Chambers of Deputies and of Peers on the Gouvion-Saint-Cyr law. Conscription having been abolished by the restoration, its re-establishment confronted the monarchy with ideological trouble, and the law gave rise to one of the most remarkable debates in French parliamentary history, because virtually all modern political ideologies - conservatism, liberalism, constitutional monarchism, republicanism - confronted each other in theoretically very elaborated speeches. The debate is thus both a summary of the revolutionary experience and a look towards the nineteenth century.