00992nam a22001097a 4500008004100000100002000041245008800061260003600149300003200185520062800217773003700845201106b           ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aFalaky, Faycal.  aThe cloche and its critics: Muting the church’s voice in pre-revolutionary france  aJournal of the History of Ideas  a81(2), Apr, 2020: p.239-255  aDuring the French Revolution, several decrees were issued ordering the bells of suppressed churches to be melted and converted to money and cannons. Through examples drawn from literary and historical sources, this essay explains this fateful condemnation by showing how bells were part and parcel of pre-revolutionary anti-clerical writing. This essay also argues that the conflicting attitudes toward church bells do not just encapsulate a time period in French history in which the experience of religion underwent a significant change; they also represent differing attitudes toward the experience of time. - Reproduced  aJournal of the History of Ideas