Charles Paulet

What Dominique Pagani says

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. 1Monde d'avant, Monde d'après - 1ère partie16 Jan 2021 · 29:43
2. 29 #17 La métaphore géopolitique • Planck • Descartes • Clouscard • Dominique Pagani17 Mar 2021 · 1:03:29
3. 3Préface au mémoire de Simon Verdun, « La critique du néokantisme chez Michel Clouscard », soutenue à l’ENS DE Paris, sanctionnée par une mention très bien.5 Jul 2018 · 50:16
4. 4#5.1 bis FaceBook Live / Questions2 Nov 2018 · 32:30
5. 5Hegel Plage 2/51 Feb 2016 · 1:29:37
6. 6#1.5 Entre crise et guerre : Philosopher ?10 Dec 2015 · 16:11
7. 7#1.5 Entre crise et guerre : Philosopher ?10 Dec 2015 · 48:15
8. 8#1.5 Entre crise et guerre : Philosopher ?10 Dec 2015 · 1:20:35

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