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The Wheel of Fortune in Eighteenth-Century France: The Lottery, Consumption, and Politics.

dc.contributor.authorKruckeberg, Robert D.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2009-09-03T14:43:40Z
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dc.date.available2009-09-03T14:43:40Z
dc.date.issued2009en_US
dc.date.submitteden_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/63676
dc.description.abstractThis dissertation examines the growth and development of lotteries in eighteenth-century France. Lotteries first arrived in France in 1539, but those early lotteries were always temporary. The eighteenth century saw the rise of permanent lotteries which quickly became a fixture in French life. This dissertation begins by discussing the use of permanent, charitable lotteries in the early part of the century. These lotteries were more successful and popular than anyone had imagined. Their success led to an even greater use of lotteries that became increasingly associated with the French monarchy. In mid-century, the monarchy granted a privilege for a lottery to the Royal Military School. The Loterie de l’École Militaire became the largest lottery Europe had ever known. The monarchy finally expropriated the entire French lottery system in 1776 with the Royal Lottery. The new lottery became a point of bitter contestation during the last years of the Old Regime and the French Revolution. That lottery was suppressed in 1793 amid the economic and political chaos of the early part of the Terror. This dissertation uses royal decrees, literary sources, and archival records of the institutions of Old Regime France to reconstruct this narrative. This dissertation contextualizes the rise of lotteries in the eighteenth century as part of two historical forces: the changes in political culture and the consumer revolution. Eighteenth-century France was a place of new and innovative politics in which political actors began to appeal to a new source of political authority: the public and its opinions. It was also a place of economic expansion and growth like never before. In the end, this dissertation examines the lotteries as a convergence of these two forces. To expand to the extent that they did, the lotteries needed both the economic wealth of the century and political will. But more than mere convergence, this dissertation suggests how the transformative economics and politics of the century were related. The lotteries show how consumer culture and political culture were intimately interconnected. Consumers of lottery tickets became a consumer public which had very real political implications.en_US
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dc.subjectFranceen_US
dc.subjectHistoryen_US
dc.subjectLotteriesen_US
dc.subjectOld Regimeen_US
dc.subjectFrench Revolutionen_US
dc.subject18th Centuryen_US
dc.titleThe Wheel of Fortune in Eighteenth-Century France: The Lottery, Consumption, and Politics.en_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
dc.description.thesisdegreenamePhDen_US
dc.description.thesisdegreedisciplineHistoryen_US
dc.description.thesisdegreegrantorUniversity of Michigan, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studiesen_US
dc.contributor.committeememberGoodman, Denaen_US
dc.contributor.committeememberHancock, David J.en_US
dc.contributor.committeememberMacDonald, Michael P.en_US
dc.contributor.committeememberSiegfried, Susan L.en_US
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevelHistory (General)en_US
dc.subject.hlbtoplevelHumanitiesen_US
dc.description.bitstreamurlhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/63676/1/rkruckeb_1.pdf
dc.owningcollnameDissertations and Theses (Ph.D. and Master's)


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