Les premiers libéraux de Serbie : le cercle des “Parisiens”

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Dušan T. Bataković

Abstract

The paper deals with the development and the political influence of the
liberals, the first domestic political élite of Serbia in mid-nineteenth century,
educated mostly in Paris. In contrast to so-called “Germans”, the Serb élite
that came to Principality of Serbia from neighbouring Habsburg Monarchy,
importing Austrian-type bureaucratic and autocratic political patterns, the
“Parisians” brought to Serbia the French ideas of constitutionalism and political freedoms. Led by Jevrem Grujič, Vladimir Jovanocić and Milovan Jankovič, they believed that a peasant Serbian society deprived of aristocracy and
organized into extended families seen as a core of democratic society could
easily embrace Western political ideas. Their first important political appearance of the Parisians was at the Assembly of Saint Andrew in 1858, when they
defended the sovereignty of the nation and the National Assembly as the
French-type Parliament. The political action of the early liberals in Serbia was
appealing to the next political generations.

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