par Collart, Muriel 
Editeur scientifique Droixhe, Daniel
Référence L'Esprit des journaux : un périodique européen au XVIIIe siècle, Le Cri - Académie royale de langue et de littérature françaises de Belgique, Bruxelles, page (115-150)
Publication Publié, 2009-10-12
Editeur scientifique Droixhe, Daniel
Référence L'Esprit des journaux : un périodique européen au XVIIIe siècle, Le Cri - Académie royale de langue et de littérature françaises de Belgique, Bruxelles, page (115-150)
Publication Publié, 2009-10-12
Publication dans des actes
| Résumé : | How can a periodical claiming merely to mirror European newspapers become an active agent of agricultural modernity? Drawing on a close examination of agricultural articles published in L’Esprit des journaux between 1772 and 1789, this study investigates the journal’s editorial positioning and ideological commitments.An analysis of debates surrounding the liberalization of the grain trade — particularly in the context of reforms associated with Anne Robert Jacques Turgot — alongside discussions on viticulture and livestock diseases, reveals a coherent orientation. Behind a posture of neutrality, the periodical selected, framed, and hierarchized knowledge in ways that effectively supported physiocratic economic principles.Subsistence crises and epizootics did not undermine this orientation; rather, they accelerated and concretized it. Moving beyond event-driven reporting, the journal inscribed agricultural reform within a longue durée perspective centered on fundamental social needs and national prosperity.L’Esprit des journaux thus emerges not only as an observatory of Enlightenment agrarian thought but as an active mediator between scientific knowledge, economic reform, and the formation of European public opinion. |
