학생들의 출신지를 통해 본 생시르 - Fleury Vindry의 Les Demoiselles de Saint-Cyr(1686-1793)를 중심으로

Abstract

Saint-Cyr lies at the intersection of the Catholic Reformation and the aristocratic policies of Louis XIV in the late 17th century. As evidenced by the fact that it was founded with the administrative and economic support of the absolute monarch Louis XIV, Saint-Cyr was an expression of the political will of the monarch to ultimately hold sociocultural hegemony by fundamentally cultivating subjects who would obey to the national authority through women education which is both pious and compliant to the patriarchal order. In this sense, Saint-Cyr illustrates the correlation of politics and education during the French absolute monarchy. Based on Fleury Vindry’s Les Demoiselles de Saint-Cyr(1686-1793), this paper analyzes the origins of the students who enrolled at Saint-Cyr from its opening in 1686 to its closure in 1793. This analysis shows that, while there was a regional bias in the origins of Saint-Cyr’s students in the early days of Saint-Cyr, over time “fragmentation of recruitment” or, an even nationwide distribution from the most central to the most remote parts was shown. This suggests that Saint-Cyr was not a school to educate some girls of interested local noble families into cultured women, but rather functioned to nationally propagate the political goals of the absolute monarchy through women who would become “first teachers” for their children and virtuous wives for their husbands.