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- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 01:08:45 -0500
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- From: james schmidt <jschmidt@ACS.BU.EDU>
- Subject: De Marees, Louis the Great, and the United Colonies
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- In the course of editing an English translation of Andreas Riem's 1788
- pamphlet "Ueber Aufklaerung", a few problems have arisen in tracing
- allusions and references. I was wondering if anyone could help me on the
- points which follow.
-
- 1. In the essay Riem refers a couple of times to "de Marees": "why do your
- theologians scuffle, why do your exegetes battle; why do your De Marees cry
- out as if human understanding held a knife to the throat of religion?" and
- "If here and there a de Marees chaffs at the corner of their garment, they
- can put up with it calmly, because the enemy of reason has lost his teeth."
- Who - or what - is a "de Marees"?
-
- 2. In another passage Riem states that "posterity wisely judges Louis the
- persecutor whom some have called 'the Great' - and speaks of his conversions
- by dragoons, gallows, and gallies, as the blood-thirsty man deserves." Jean
- Mondot's French translation of this passage guesses that the Louis referred
- to here is Louis XIV. But what about Louis I (Louis the Great) of Hungary
- and Poland (1326-1382). Wouldn't he be more blood-thirsty than Louis XIV?
- But the references to "Dragoner, Galgen und Galeeren" seems more appropriate
- to Louis XIV. Was there ever a Louis who was infact called "Louis the
- Persecutor"
-
- 3. In a passage which would appear to be about the newly founded United
- States, Riem asks "What brought about the free state of the united colonies?
- Deception of the English government and deception of the colonies." ["Was
- brachte den Freistaat der verinigten Kolonien hervor? Taeuschung der
- englishcen Ministeriums, und Taeuschung der Kolonien."] He goes on to
- describe the weakness of the current constitution in which "Every province
- is sovereign, and so every province is by itself powerless!" ["Jede Provinz
- ist souveraen, und also jede fuer sich ohnmaechtig!"]. But was "verinigten
- Kolonien" the term used by Germans in the late 1780s to refer to the "United
- States"? The passage in question immediately preceeds a discussion of the
- situation in the United Provinces during the Patriot Rebellion, so I want to
- be sure that this isn't also a reference to the Dutch.
-
- Thanks, in advance, for your help.
- James Schmidt
- Boston University
-