Between individual identity and social determination: The case of Guyénot de Châteaubourg (1743-1824)
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The unusual career of Jean-Jacques Guyénot de Châteaubourg (1743-1824), which corresponds to the transition between the society of the Ancien Régime and the one engendered by the Revolution, makes it possible to grasp how an individual manages to interiorise the contemporary social order to adapt to the changes of the time, while negotiating with collective standards. This reflection is part of an epistemological rehabilitation of the notion of the individual in the last few years, in reaction to the structuralist analyses of the previous decades.