ABSTRACT
The word "patrie" evoked emotional connotations and national pride for historians such as Lavisse. In the seventeenth century, the word did not carry such resonnances. When Furetiere's definition is contrasted with Lavisse's use of the term, the redefinition of "patrie" becomes strikingly clear. Lavisse resembles Furetiere's Roman soldier, devoted to a "patrie" he envisions not only as his birthplace, but as his nation. The tinting of "patrie" with nationalist ideology is a phenomenon that developed out of the Revolution, but only crystallized in France in the nineteenth century. Implicit in the use of pedagogical manuals and anthologies is an effort to inculcate a shared sense of values and heritage. Seventeenth-century taste is shared between worldly and academic, but in the end the doctes represented by Boileau win out in this depiction of le Grand Siecle because novels and salon influence are no longer valued.
