Maurice Jolly

Biography

It followed studies of right which it stopped in 1849 to go to Paris. He worked with the ministry of State during ten years and obtained the diploma for the occupation of lawyer. In 1865 the publication of the Dialog to the hells is worth to him two years of prison with Holy-Pelagie for “excitation with the hatred and the contempt of the government” (judgment of the magistrates' court of the the Seine). Drawn aside by his republican friends of any position of responsibility, it realizes that the Republic does not do better in this respect than the Empire. Patient, in misery and full with bitterness, it commits suicide in 1878.

Analyzes of the policy of Napoleon III

In the Dialog with the hells , Maurice Jolly describes how Napoleon III handled the economic circles, the press, the public opinion, the working trade unions, mediums, the people, etc, to establish the strong foundations of a capacity which one could describe as totalitarian. According to the author, the emperor made of French people people of slaves, oublieux of his freedom and granting all controls.

" It is that you do not know… what there is impotence and even of silliness at the majority of the men of the European demagogy. These tigers have hearts of sheep, heads full with wind; it is enough to speak their language to penetrate in their row. Their ideas have almost all, moreover, of incredible affinities with the doctrines of the absolute capacity. Their dream is the absorption of the individuals, in a unit symbolic system. They ask the complete realization of the equality, by the virtue of a capacity which can be ultimately only in the hand of one man. You see that I am still here the chief of their school! And then it should be said that they do not have the choice. The secret societies will exist under the conditions which I have just said or they will not exist pas."

"Machiavel" , in Maurice Jolly, Dialog with the hells between Machiavel and Montesquieu (1864). "

He is the author of a lampoon which, diverted (the charge of Napoleon III being replaced by that of the only Jews, even non-financial) will be used later basic as clothes industry of the Protocoles of Wise of Sion …

Works

the Bar of Paris, studies political and arts persons , Paris, Gosselin, 1863.
: " By a contemporain" , Dialog with the hells between Machiavel and Montesquieu or the policy at the XIXe century , by a contemporary, Brussels, A. Mertens and wire, 1864 ( Dialog with the hells between Machiavel and Montesquieu , available HTTP: /visualiseur.bnf.fr/Visualiseur?Destination=Gallica&O=NUMM-74294 here); rééd. Brussels 1868, edition bearing the name of the author; Paris, Calmann-Levy, " Freedom of the esprit" 1948 then with a foreword of Jean-François Revel 1968.
César , Paris, Martin-Bowsprit brothers.
: " By a contemporain" , Research on art to arrive , Paris, Amyot, 1868.
Maurice Jolly, his past, his program, by itself , Paris, Lacroix, Verboeckhoven, 1870.
the Third Republican party , Paris, E. Dentu, 1872.
the Famished ones, study of manners contemporaries , Paris, E. Dentu, 1876.
Dialog with the hells between Machiavel and Montesquieu (Paris, Small Odéon, May 31st, 1983, theatrical adaptation of Pierre Franck), Paris, Theater of the Workshop, " Calepin" , 1983.

Bonds

Dialog with the hells on Wikisource
Works on the Gallica site

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