Autore
Dal Cin, Valentina

Titolo
Candidarsi a un impiego in età napoleonica. Riflessioni a partire da una ricerca in corso
Periodico
Passato e presente
Anno: 2023 - Fascicolo: 119 - Pagina iniziale: 53 - Pagina finale: 68

The principle of career pathways based on merit, brought in by the French Revolution, was also asserted by Napoleon. Though opposed to the concept of favour, merit remained an ambiguous term, conceived both as an individual and a hereditary feature. The analysis of a corpus of almost seven hundred applications for employment, produced by three hundred candidates, allows us to examine on which elements they based their rhetorical strategy be it education, service, kinship, sufferings, or family burdens by observing the Napoleonic administration through the perception held by those who wanted to be employed.



SICI: 1120-0650(2023)119<53:CAUIIE>2.0.ZU;2-7
Testo completo: http://digital.casalini.it/10.3280/PASS2023-119003

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