La colonie française et l’église catholique de Moscou à la fin du xviiie siècle
Abstracts
The French community and the Moscow catholic church at the end of the eighteenth century. – Numerous reasons led to the creation in Moscow of a well-organized and structured French-speaking community. The creation of this community was symbolized by the foundation of a French parish which the French priests and the community’s influential families wanted to reserve exclusively for French nationals. This article describes the fierce battle that went on between the priests and managers of Moscow’s two catholic parishes – the French Saint-Louis-des-Français and the older Saints-Pierre-et-Paul. However, this battle can only be understood in the light of the social and demographic processes going on at the time and the assimilation strategies that the French community was subjected to at the end of the eighteenth century. Our aim in the present article is to bring these processes to light by looking at analyses of demographic data, at the exchange of correspondence between the priests of both churches and at the history of the Delesalle, the most prominent family of the community at the time.
Editor's notes
À sa demande expresse, les différentes contributions de Vladislav S. Rzheuckij figurent toutes désormais sous la forme francisée de son patronyme, Vladislav Rjéoutski (novembre 2005).
References
Bibliographical reference
Vladislav Rjéoutski, “La colonie française et l’église catholique de Moscou à la fin du xviiie siècle”, Cahiers du monde russe, 41/4 | 2000, 615-628.
Electronic reference
Vladislav Rjéoutski, “La colonie française et l’église catholique de Moscou à la fin du xviiie siècle”, Cahiers du monde russe [Online], 41/4 | 2000, Online since 15 June 2009, connection on 28 March 2024. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/monderusse/61; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/monderusse.61
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