The Dialogue in Hell Between Machiavelli and Montesquieu

The Dialogue in Hell Between Machiavelli and Montesquieu
Dialogue aux enfers, 1864
AuthorMaurice Joly
Original titleDialogue aux enfers entre Machiavel et Montesquieu
GenreParody, Dialogue
Publication date
1864

The Dialogue in Hell Between Machiavelli and Montesquieu[1] (in the original French, Dialogue aux enfers entre Machiavel et Montesquieu ou la politique de Machiavel au XIXe siècle) is a political satire written by French attorney Maurice Joly (initially released anonymously in Bruxelles, Belgium, under the generic label of "a contemporary") in protest against the regime of Napoleon III (a.k.a. Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte), who ruled France from 1848 to 1870. It was translated into English in 2002. Small portions were translated in 1967 as an appendix to Norman Cohn's Warrant for Genocide, which identifies it as the main source of the later Protocols of the Elders of Zion, though The Dialogue itself makes no mention of Jews.[2]

The piece uses the literary device of a dialogue of the dead, invented by ancient Roman writer Lucian and introduced into the French belles-lettres by Bernard de Fontenelle in the 18th century. Shadows of the historical characters of Niccolò Machiavelli and Montesquieu meet in Hell in the year 1864 and dispute on politics. In this way Joly tried to cover up a direct, and then illegal, criticism of Louis-Napoleon's rule.

Summary

Joly relates in his 1870 autobiography[3] that one evening, while thinking of economist Abbé Galiani's treatise Dialogues sur le commerce des blés ("Dialogues on the commerce in wheat")[4] and walking by Pont Royal, he was inspired to write a dialogue between Montesquieu and Machiavelli. The noble baron Montesquieu would make the case for liberalism; the Florentine politician Machiavelli would present the case for despotism.

Machiavelli claims that he "... wouldn't even need twenty years to transform utterly the most indomitable European character and render it as a docile under tyranny as the debased people of Asia". Montesquieu insists that the liberal spirit of the peoples is invincible. In 25 dialogues, step by step, Machiavelli, who by Joly's plot covertly represents Napoleon III, explains how he would replace freedom with despotism in any given European country: "... Absolute power will no longer be an accident of fortune but will become a need" of the modern society. At the end, Machiavelli prevails. In the curtain-line Montesquieu exclaims "Eternal God, what have you permitted!...".[1]

The book was published anonymously (par un contemporain, by a contemporary) in Brussels in 1864[5] and smuggled into France for distribution, but the print run was seized by the police immediately upon crossing the border. The police swiftly tracked down its author, and Joly was arrested. The book was banned. On 25 April 1865, he was sentenced to 18 months at the Sainte-Pélagie Prison in Paris. The second edition of "Dialogues" was issued in 1868 under Joly's name.[6]

Campaigning against Napoleon III at the 1870 French constitutional referendum, Joly wrote an epilogue to his "Dialogue". It was published at Le Gaulois[7] and La Cloche[8] magazines.[9]

Legacy

In the beginning of the 20th century Joly's book was used as a basis for The Protocols of the Elders of Zion,[10] an infamous Russian-made antisemitic literary forgery. There is an abundance of evidence (some of which was presented at the Berne Trial) that The Protocols were lavishly plagiarized from The Dialogue.[2][11][12][13][14][15] This was shown for the first time by Pierre Charles in 1938.[16].

Joly's book, however, was a satire on French politics of the Second Republic and Second Empire and contained no antisemitic material (or indeed any references to Jews at all); the anonymous authors of the Protocols interpolated a sinister Jewish cabal for the original's references to members of the government of Napoleon III.[2]

References

  1. ^ a b Joly, Maurice (2002). The Dialogue in Hell between Machiavelli and Montesquieu. Translated by John S. Waggoner. Lexington Books. ISBN 0-7391-0337-7.
  2. ^ a b c Graves, Philip (August 16–18, 1921). "The Truth about the Protocols: A Literary Forgery". The Times. London. p. 23.
  3. ^ Maurice Joly (1870). Maurice Joly, son passé, son programme, par lui-même. Paris: Lacroix, Verbɶckhoven et Co.
  4. ^ Galiani, Ferdinando (1770). Dialogues sur le commerce des bleds. London.
  5. ^ Maurice Joly (1864). Dialogue aux enfers entre Machiavel et Montesquieu ou la politique de Machiavel au XIXe siècle. Bruxelles: A. Mertens et fils.
  6. ^ Maurice Joly (1868). Dialogue aux Enfers entre Machiavel et Montesquieu, ou la Politique au XIXe siècle, par un contemporain [Maurice Joly]. Bruxelles: Tous les libraires.
  7. ^ Maurice Joly (30 April 1870). "Dialogue aux Enfers entre Machiavel et Montesquieu. Épilogue". Le Gaulois: Littéraire et politique (in French) (664). Paris: 2–3.
  8. ^ Maurice Joly. "Dialogue aux Enfers entre Machiavel et Montesquieu. Epilogue". La Cloche, 2 May 1870 – 10 May 1870 (in French).
  9. ^ F. Leclercq (1996). Le Plébiscite, épilogue du dialogue aux enfers entre Machiavel et Montesquieu, précédé de César. Paris-Zanzibar. ISBN 2-911314-02-6.
  10. ^ Сергей Нилус (1905). Великое в малом и антихрист, как близкая политическая возможность. Записки православного. Царское Село.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  11. ^ Kevin Schlottmann (July 17, 2013). "Guide to the Bern Trial on the Protocols of the Elders of Zion Collection". Center for Jewish History. Leo Baeck Institute. Retrieved January 26, 2016.
  12. ^ Herman Bernstein (1935). The Truth About "The Protocols of Zion". A Complete Exposure. New York: Covici Friede. ISBN 978-0870681769.
  13. ^ Alex Bein (1990). The Jewish question: biography of a world problem. Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. p. 339. ISBN 978-0-8386-3252-9.
  14. ^ Steven Leonard Jacobs; Mark Weitzman (2003). Dismantling the Big Lie: The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. KTAV Publishing House. p. 15. ISBN 0-88125-785-0.
  15. ^ Cesare De Michelis (2004). The Non-Existent Manuscript: a Study of the Protocols of the Sages of Zion, Studies in Antisemitism Series. University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 0-8032-1727-7.
  16. ^ Pierre Charles: Les protocoles des sages de Sion, dans Nouvelle Revue théologique, vol. 65, 1938, pp.56-78, 966-969, 1083-1084.

Further reading

  • Pierre Charles, Les protocoles des sages de Sion, in Nouvelle Revue théologique, vol. 65, 1938, pp.56-78, 966-969, 1083-1084.
  • Robert Rethy. Review of Frightful Fantasies, by Maurice Joly and John S. Waggoner. The Review of Politics 66, no. 4 (2004): 675–78. online.
  • Shackleton, Robert. “Montesquieu and Machiavelli: A Reappraisal.” Comparative Literature Studies 1, no. 1 (1964): 1–13. online.
  • Sikes, W. E. “A Conversation in the Underworld Between Montesquieu and Machiavelli.” Social Science 28, no. 3 (1953): 152–59. online.
  • Speier, Hans. “The Truth in Hell: Maurice Joly on Modern Despotism.” Polity 10, no. 1 (1977): 18–32. online.

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