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From Jacobite to Jacobine: The Irish College at Paris as a Laboratory of Political Mutation

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Perhaps the most prestigious and certainly the most important Irish college abroad during the Ancien Régime, the Irish College at Paris was central in the networks of the Wild Geese, one where the sons of prominent families went to study as priests or to pursue careers in the medicine or in the army. Its financial importance should not be downplayed, as these studies were financed through a vast system of foundations, invested in various ventures, which provided money for bursaries granted to students. As such, it was a key establishment to control as it gave power over the fate of the heirs of Catholic families. Inevitably, rivalries and conflicts built over its control. The French Revolution re-oriented these conflicts and politicized them in new ways. Through the case studies of two individual, Kerryman William Duckett and Ulsterman Fr. James Coigly, who spearheaded the opposition of the students against the superiors of the college from 1787 to 1792, culminating in the event known as the ‘Republic in the College’ on 29 October 1792, it is possible to shed light on how these rivalries, which had taken place in a Jacobite context, made the college one of the laboratories where Jacobitism transformed into Jacobinism. It offers a tantalizing window on Irish and French republicanisms when they emerged together in a dynamic interplay.
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hal-03823563 , version 1 (21-10-2022)

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Mathieu Ferradou. From Jacobite to Jacobine: The Irish College at Paris as a Laboratory of Political Mutation. Wild Geese: Irish Migrants in Early Modern Europe, Center for Early Modern Studies, Mary Immaculate College, Limerick, Jul 2022, Limerick, Ireland. ⟨hal-03823563⟩
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