Deutsch-Französischer Salon: Mömpelgard oder Montbéliard?

The theme of the salon organized by the German-French Culture Association is Montbéliard, a small town in Burgundy. It belonged to Württemberg until the French Revolution and influenced the "mother country" unnoticed.

In 1397, a small country, which lies south of Belfort in the Burgundian gateway, became part of the county of Württemberg through marriage politics. In publications on Württemberg history, it is generally referred to as Mömpelgard. However, it was called Montbéliard because French was the main language spoken there.
Around 1600, Montbéliard was a gateway for humanist and baroque literature from France. There, treatises on constitutional law as well as chivalric and pastoral novels were translated from French into German, printed and then distributed in Germany. And from 1780 to 1800, the Württemberg exclave was a gateway to rebellious ideas. Students brought ideas of the French Revolution from Montbéliard to Tübingen and the monastery there, where they were mistrusted and suppressed by the authorities. But many students eagerly took up the ideas of their fellow students from Montbéliard; not least the later famous philosophers and poets, Hegel, Hölderlin and Schelling, who were studying in Tübingen at the time and lived there together in a "Stube".

Introduction and moderation: Ralf Kröner,
Croissants and drinks can be ordered.