Lettres sur l'esprit du patriotisme, sur l'idée d'un roi patriote, et sur l'état des parties qui divisaient l'Angleterre lors de l'avènement de George 1er
Authors of source text
Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke
Contributions
- Claude de Thiard de Bissy
- translator
- Aux dép. de la Compagnie (Anonymous (156))
- publisher
Related resources
- is translation of
- Letters on the Spirit of Patriotism, On the Idea of a Patriot King, and on the State of Parties, at the Accession of King George the First has translation
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Notes
Translation of three texts by Bolingbroke, A Dissertation upon Parties (1733–34), On the Spirit of Patriotism (1736) and The Idea of a Patriot King (1738). The Chevalier de Jaucourt's article on 'Patriote' in the Encyclopédie (1765) drew extensively upon it.
The url is to the second, more accurate edition, according to the anonymous publisher's seven-page preface, which went through four editions in 1750. The translator's name is indicated by Gallica.
It was retranslated in 1790, at the height of attempts to fashion a constitutional monarchy.
For more on Bolingbroke's influence in France, see:
David Armitage, 'A patriot for whom? The afterlives of Bolingbroke's Patriot King' (1997, Journal of British Studies).
Peter Campbell, 'The language of patriotism in France, 1750-1770' (2007, e-France: an online journal of French studies, 1. pp.1-43)
Dennis Fletcher, 'The Chevalier de Jaucourt and the English Sources of the Encyclopedic article, 'Patriote'' (Diderot Studies, 1973, vol.16).