Texte remanié de: Th. doct.--Droit--Paris, 1914.

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De la fin du XVIIème siècle jusqu'à l'abolition de 1848, l'île Bourbon, dans le Sud-Ouest de l'océan Indien, a connu un système esclavagiste marqué par une codification et des pratiques des différents pouvoirs dévalorisant ou niant les structures familiales des esclaves. A côté d'autres moyens de résistances serviles comme le marronnage ou la révolte, il apparaît, grâce à la reconstruction des familles esclaves, que ces formes d'organisation ont permis à une population provenant de razzias en Afrique ou à Madagascar, puis fortement créolisée, de retrouver son humanité, en investissant le champ de la parenté dont les pouvoirs civils ou religieux la privaient. Si un nombre restreint de familles furent reconnues, comme à l'époque de la Compagnie des Indes, la majorité des esclaves vécurent au sein de familles marrons, ignorées et méprisées. Elles apparaitront au grand jour après l'abolition de l'esclavage en 1848. La natalité fut reconnu importante au sein du groupe des esclaves mais accompagnée d'une forte mortalité infantile. Lieu privilégié de transmissions de valeurs culturelles et linguistiques, la famille esclave, quelles qu'en soient les formes, a permis à de très nombreux esclaves de survivre à un système inhumain, les exclus de la parenté appartenant essentiellement aux groupes ayant connu la destruction de leur système familial, à Madagascar ou en Afrique. / From the end of the 17th century until the abolition of 1848, Bourbon Island in the South-West Indian Ocean, saw a slave system marked by consolidation and practices of different authorities downgrading or denied family structures of the slave. Next to other means of servile resistors as the "marronage" or revolt, it appears through the reconstruction of slaves families, these forms of organization have enabled a population from raids in Africa or Madagascar, then strongly creolized regain his humanity, investing field of kinship that civil or religious powers denied. If a small number of families were recognized at the time of the India Company, the majority of slaves lived in Maroon families, ignored and disregarded. They will appear in broad daylight after the abolition of slavery in 1848. The birth rate was important in the group of slaves but accompanied by a high infant mortality. Privileged place of cultural and linguistic values transmissions, slave family, in all forms, has helped many slaves to survived to an inhuman system, those excludes from the kinship system mostly belonging to the groups have experienced the destruction of their family system in Africa or Madagascar.

S’il est devenu aujourd’hui assez courant de s’intéresser à la genèse d’écrits littéraires divers, il est un genre qui ne semble guère se prêter à ce genre d’approche : le journal personnel. Écriture au jour le jour, écriture a priori spontanée semblant exclure tout brouillon, toute préparation autre que mentale, on ne voit pas bien comment on pourrait en suivre la genèse. Or les Cahiers de Jacques de Bourbon Busset que nous publions ici apportent un démenti éclatant à de tels préjugés : pendant six ans et demi, d’août 1958 à décembre 1964, l’écrivain, qui a déjà publié plusieurs récits, va s’interroger très longuement sur ce que doit être son œuvre essentielle, qu’il estime ne pas avoir encore écrite. Et ces Cahiers montrent en particulier comment, peu à peu, il évolue, abandonnant l’idée d’écrire un grand roman, puis un livre d’essais, puis un grand récit autobiographique, pour accepter finalement l’idée que l’œuvre essentielle qu’il doit écrire est son Journal, Journal qu’il publiera effectivement pendant vingt ans. Comment arriver à accepter cette idée quand on déteste l’anecdotique, la complaisance, le narcissisme et quand on refuse de prendre soi-même la parole dans ses livres ? / Although it has now become quite common to study the origins of various literary works there is one genre which would not appear to be suited to this type of approach: the personal diary. Entries are written day to day, the writing is, in principle, spontaneous, and would appear to exclude any kind of rough draft, any kind of preparation other than mental. It is difficult to see, therefore, how its origin can be tracked. And yet the Cahiers written by Jacques de Bourbon Busset that we are publishing here refute such prejudices completely: for six and a half years, from August 1958 to December 1964, the author, who had already published several books, was to ask himself at great length what his essential work was to be, work that he believed he had not yet written. And these Cahiers demonstrate specifically how he gradually evolved, abandoning ideas of writing a great novel, then a book of essays and then a major autobiographical account, before finally accepting the idea that the essential work he had to write was his Journal or private diary, a Journal that he actually published over a period of twenty years. How did he come to accept this idea when he hated all things anecdotal, self-indulgent or narcissistic and when he refused to speak in the first person in his books?

New ideas about trade, society, and the nature of government pulsed throughout the Atlantic World during the eighteenth century. This dissertation explores the relationship between political reforms and life along a colonial frontier. To do so, this project analyzes the effects of new laws imposed by the Spanish monarchy in Central America during the eighteenth century. The policies implemented during this time offered unequal prospects to social groups (e.g., Indians, merchants, soldiers, and farmers), state and non-state institutions (e.g., the Church, town councils, merchant guilds, and regional governments), and individuals to reconfigure traditional local power arrangements. This process, however, produced new conflicts between individuals, communities, and institutions as they attempted to expand and defend their traditional roles in society. I argue Nicaragua's relative isolation from the rest of the Spanish world allowed for the already complex and unwieldy process to become even more difficult. Thus, the majority of the reforms introduced over the eighteenth century remained poorly implemented. Even in areas where royal officials achieved noticeable progress and success, such as the creation of a tobacco monopoly, the new legal regime created new, often unforeseen, problems. In the first part of my dissertation, I examine how vague (and sometimes contradictory) decrees from Spain provided opportunities for new expressions of local power. In the first chapter, I examine the effect that new laws limiting the power of the Church had on local officials and members of the clergy. For example, new ordinance concerning the regulation of private gatherings and dances provoked a major conflict between two pillars of local rule: the bishop and the governor. In the second chapter, I analyze how new laws and decrees contributed to the expansion of an already flourishing black market. New economic ideas, such as ones that established royal monopolies, led to a significant increase in the remittances sent to Spain from Central America; however these same economic policies also eroded local economies and pushed some individuals to participate in illicit trade. The second half of this study analyzes the colonial experiences of indigenous peoples in two very different areas of Central America. In the third chapter, I examine western Nicaragua, where Spanish rule was its strongest and indigenous communities struggled to defend themselves from increasingly onerous demands for labor and tribute. In the fourth chapter, I shift the view to eastern and central Nicaragua and Honduras, where Spain's presence was tenuous or non-existent. There, local indigenous groups capitalized on Spanish fears of a British presence in eastern Central America to extract major concessions and preserve their autonomy while individuals sold their services to the competing empires. This dissertation draws on extensive work with sources, many hitherto untapped, at archives in Spain, Guatemala, the United States, and Nicaragua to demonstrate that residents of Spanish Central America—Spanish, American born Spaniards, natives, mulattos, and mestizos alike—contributed to new understandings of imperial goals that proved that some reforms could be flexible and amendable to local conditions. The legal battles, Church records, military reports, and pleas to the king also highlight shifting ideas about the political, economic, and social organization of society. Beyond its contribution to the limited studies that focus on Nicaragua during the colonial period, my dissertation adds to the broader, comparative fields of colonial studies, economic history, the study of borderlands and frontiers, and the Atlantic World.

Th.--Droit--Paris, 1914. / Université de Paris, Faculté de droit.

Thesis advisor: Owen Stanwood / This dissertation is a history of the First Irish Diaspora and its relationship to the Spanish Empire’s eighteenth-century Bourbon Reforms. Although there is a long history of Irish migration to Spain, I argue that the conjuncture of the War of the English Succession (1688-1695) and the War of the Spanish Succession (1702-1713) foreclosed hopes of a reversal of the seventeenth century Irish land-confiscations which defined the English conquest and colonization of Ireland, pushing thousands of Irish Catholics into exile near-simultaneous to the ascension of a reform-minded Bourbon monarchy to the Spanish thrown which opened new opportunities for useful subjects. At the same time, these wars established the emergent British Empire as a rising Atlantic hegemon and exposed the fragility of a Spanish Empire widely viewed by contemporaries as in decline. In such a context, Irish familiarity with British methods of empire-making made them ideal imperial translators for the Spanish Crown precisely as the empire embarked on its Bourbon Reform program. Genealogy and religion formed the foundations of Irish assimilation into the Spanish Empire – the Irish became Hiberno-Spaniards because of the “genealogical fiction” that the Irish sliocht (“race,” literally “seed”) descended from Spaniards and because they were Catholic. In Spain, the impact of this Hiberno-Spanish diaspora on the Bourbon Reforms began following the War of the Spanish Succession and reached its crescendo in the aftermath of Spain’s disastrous defeat in the Seven Years’ War (1756-1763). Specifically, Hiberno-Spanish imperialists in the metropole were important participants in the debates and decisions that promoted liberalizing national-colonial trade, investments in infrastructure, the emulation of foreign practices such as British and Irish economic societies, and more; i.e. the emulation of British political economy. Their principal contribution to the empire was the translation of political economic statecraft and a cosmopolitanism of exile that honed their ability to translate foreign ideas in an age of imperial emulation and made them especially effective imperial intermediaries in polyglot and liminal spaces such as the Gulf Coast borderlands. There, in Cuba, Texas, Louisiana, and Florida, Hiberno-Spanish slavers, governors, merchants, and imperialists were important contributors to Spain’s real but ephemeral resurgence in colonial North America and the Atlantic world. The Spanish Empire collapsed and Irish emigration patterns rerouted to North America, but Hiberno-Spaniards and the Bourbon Reforms first accelerated the processes of colonization and slavery that transformed Cuba and the Gulf Coast into the world’s capital of cotton, sugar, and slavery in the nineteenth century. / Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2022. / Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. / Discipline: History.

Née en 1464 au château Saint Georges de Mantoue, Claire de Gonzague grandit au sein d'une cour très raffinée, celle des marquis de Gonzague, condottieres et mécènes, commanditaires du peintre le plus réputé de l'époque, Andrea Mantegna. Après son mariage en 1481 avec le comte Gilbert de Bourbon-Montpensier, elle devient dame d'honneur de la reine Anne de Bretagne et accueille des artistes et des réfugiés italiens dans son château d'Aigueperse. A partir de 1493, la comtesse joue un rôle d'intermédiaire entre son frère François de Gonzague et le roi de France. Lors de la première campagne d'Italie en septembre 1494, Gilbert de Montpensier accompagne Charles VIII, qui le nomme vice-roi de Naples l'année suivante. C'est à Mantoue où elle est l'hôte de sa belle-soeur Isabelle d'Este que Claire apprend la mort de son époux le 9 novembre 1496 à Pouzzoles. Devenue veuve, elle bénéficie de la protection du roi et tente de jouer un rôle politique, incitant François à maintenir de bons rapports avec Louis XII qui, après le duché de Milan, envisage de conquérir le petit marquisat. Tout au long de la crise politique de 1500, la comtesse met son talent de négociatrice au service de son frère pour sauver son état. Epuisée par la maladie qui la ronge depuis de nombreuses années, elle meurt très chrétiennement le 2 juin 1503. Selon son désir, elle est inhumée dans la Sainte-Chapelle d'Aigueperse auprès de son époux Gilbert de Bourbon-Montpensier. / Born in 1464 in Saint George's castle in Mantoue, Claire of Gonzague grows up in the heart of a very sophisticated court, the marquess of Gonzague's court, "condottieres" and sponsors, protectors of the most famous painter in this time, Andrea Mantegna. After her marriage in 1481 with the count Gilbert of Bourbon-Montpensier, she becomes maid of honour for the queen Ann of Britain and receives artists and Italian refugees in Aigueperse's castle. From 1493, the countess plays a role of an agent between her brother François of Gonzague and the king of the France. During the first campaign of Italy in september 1494, Gilbert of Montpensier escorts Charles VIII who promotes him to the rank of vice-king of Naples the next year. It's in Mantoue, where she is the guest of her sister-in-law, Isabelle of Este that Claire hears of her husband's death on the 9th of november in 1496 in Pouzzoles. As a widow, she gets the protection of the king and tries to play a politicak part, encouraging François to keep good relations with Louis XII who, after Milan's dukedom, contemplates conquering the little marquisate. During the political crisis of 1500, the countess uses her singular aptitude for saving her brothes's state. Exhausted by a progressive illness years, she dies as a true Christian on the 2nd of june 1503. In accordance to her wish, she is buried in the Aigueperse's Holy Chapel near her husband Gilbert of Bourbon-Montpensier.

La présente étude trouve son point de départ dans le sentiment de malaise et de déception que la France éprouve vis-à-vis des Deux-Siciles entre 1734 et 1792, alors qu’un Bourbon, cousin du roi de France, est roi des Deux-Siciles. En effet, malgré sa puissance, la France ne parvient guère à s’imposer face aux Deux-Siciles, ni sur la scène politique européenne, ni à un niveau plus local, méditerranéen, côtier, où se jouent des intérêts économiques assez mineurs pour les Français. Cette thèse, qui étudie les relations entre la France et les Deux-Siciles du seul point de vue de la France, vise en premier lieu, à travers un parcours chronologique initial, à retracer les conflits et à faire apparaître les pierres d’achoppement qui attestent la difficulté et la dégradation de la relation bilatérale, qui expliquent le mélange de déception et d’irritation ressenti et qui mettent en même temps sur la piste des erreurs d’appréciation commises par les serviteurs du roi de France. Se plaçant, précisément, du point de vue de ces acteurs, l’étude a ensuite pour ambition de saisir ces erreurs d’appréciation, et donc de montrer comment la prétendue victime est, à bien des égards, l’auteur de son propre malheur : comment, en d’autres termes, le tour pris par les relations entre la France et les Deux-Siciles renvoie, à un niveau plus profond que celui des événements, à un constant défaut de lecture des réalités napolitaines et siciliennes. Ce constat établi, il s’agit, enfin, de comprendre pourquoi le roi de France, qui dispose pourtant de représentants nombreux, n’est pas en mesure de parvenir à une meilleure appréciation de la situation et donc à une action plus profitable et plus incisive sur ce partenaire a priori plus faible que lui. / The starting point of this thesis is the sense of discomfort and disappointment that France feels vis-à-vis the Two Sicilies between 1734 and 1792 when a Bourbon king, a cousin of the king of France, rules the Two Sicilies. Despite its power, France is unable to assert itself over the Two Sicilies on the European stage or at a local scale, that is on the coast, where French economic interests are rather low. The purpose of this thesis is to study the relationship between France and the Two Sicilies from the French point of view. First, conflicts and stumbling blocks are presented in chronological order. This analysis shows the difficulties and the deterioration of the bilateral relationship, that explain French disappointment and annoyance and that put us on the track of misconceptions prevalent among many French king’s servants. Then the study focuses on these misconceptions and shows how the alleged victim is the author of his own misfortune. In other words it shows how beyond all the incidents, France fails to understand Neapolitan and Sicilian realities. After that, this study investigates the reasons why the French king and his many representatives are unable to improve the knowledge of the situation and therefore to carry out an appropriate policy.

Le château ducal de Moulins, s’il a subi diverses destructions, comporte aujourd’hui encore des éléments qui méritent d’être étudiés de près, afin de restituer son état initial. On connaît d’après les sources écrites au moins deux grandes campagnes de construction, la première fut amorcée par le troisième duc de Bourbon, Louis II, à la toute fin du XIVe siècle. La tour maîtresse « Mal-Coiffée » étant datée par dendrochronologie vers 1399/1400. Un second chantier d’agrandissement et de réaménagements débute après 1488, commandité cette fois par le duc de Bourbon Pierre de Beaujeu et son épouse Anne de France, sœur de Charles VIII. Cet agrandissement se terminera au tout début du XVIe siècle avec la construction d’un portique d’architecture renaissante, très précoce en France. Cette thèse mêle l’histoire et l’histoire de l’art mais part surtout d’une réflexion archéologique des bâtiments subsistants. C’est en cumulant et en confrontant ces diverses approches que l’étude a pu être la plus complète. / During his history, the ducal castle of Moulins has been subject to several destructions and improvements. Despite this, it still contains elements that should be studied carefully in order to restore its original state. From written sources, one knows at least two major buildings campaigns. First one was initiated by the third duke of Bourbon, Louis II, in the late fourteenth century. The remaining main tower, known as “Mal-Coiffée” ("Untidy Top"), has been dated by dendrochronology around 1399/1400. A second campaign of expansion and redevelopment begins after 1488, commissioned by the Duke of Bourbon, Pierre de Beaujeu and his wife Anne de France, Charles VIII’s sister. This expansion will be completed in the early sixteenth century with the construction of a renaissance architecture portico, very early in France. This thesis combines both History and art history, starting from an archaeological reflection of the remaining buildings. The aim of this work is to combine and compare these different approaches in order to obtain the most comprehensive and exhaustive study of this forgotten site which play a key role in History.